Kongshan Hill, Nanjing (Permian of China)

Where: Jiangsu, China (32.1° N, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 96.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qixia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• The Chihsia Formation overlies the Chuanshan Formation of Late Carboniferous age. In the Chihsiashan area to the NW it is overlain conformably by the Lower Permian Kuhfen Formation of Guadaloupian age.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and cherty/siliceous shale

• The material comes from the middle of the Chihsia Formation, 93 mabove the bae. Fossils directly associated with calcareous algae in this silicified bed include fusuline and smaller foraminifers, bivalves, ostracodes, echinodermsand siliceous sponge spicules
• Limestone with chert nodules and siliceous shale.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: X. Mu and R. Riding. 1983. Silicified Gymnocodiacean algae from the Permian of Nanjing, China. Palaeontology 26(Part 2):261-276 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141552: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 28.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Sinoporella sp. Kim and Yang 1978 tabulate coral