WUZE J, Wuzhuan section (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.4° N, 107.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 97.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Luolou Formation, Griesbachian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich (PIMUZ)

Primary reference: M. Hautmann, B. Bagherpour, M. Brosse, A. Frisk, R. Hofmann, A. Baud, A. Nützel, N. Goudemand, and H. Bucher. 2015. Competition in slow motion: the unusual case of benthic marine communities in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology 58:871-901 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187278: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
? Sinolingularia sp. Peng and Shi 2008
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Bakevellia ceratophaga" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) ceratophaga von Schlotheim 1816 oyster
Towapteria scythica Wirth 1936 oyster
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia liuqiaoensis He et al. 2007 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis shajingengi Hautmann et al. 2011 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalinella newelli Hautmann et al. 2011 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
? Astartopsis sp. de Loriol 1891 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus cf. similis Girty 1927 clam
Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Wannerispira shangganensis Kaim and Nützel 2010 snail