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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhodophyceae | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Pseudovermiporella sp. Elliot 1958 | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Anthozoa | |
Sinoporella sp. Kim and Yang 1978 tabulate coral |