Sidazhai section, KTP5-31 (Permian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.6° N, 106.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 17.8° S, 105.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Shaiwa Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

• Dark-gray, massive siltite with feldspathic and volcanic basaltic debris, intercalating claystone in upper part; thick-bedded litharenite at the lower 5 m

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Z. R. Zhou. 2017. Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian. Journal of Paleontology 91(Memoir 74):1-95 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185546: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
Stacheoceras shaiwaense Zhou 2017 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Difuntites furnishi Zhou 2017 ammonite