YUP D2, Yuping section (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (25.0° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 96.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• inner to mid-shelf setting and is generally dominated by Renalcis-type calcimicrobes

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187282: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoina - Palaeonaricidae
Palaeonarica guangxinensis Kaim and Nützel 2010 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Dicellonema abrekensis Kaim 2009 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Wannerispira shangganensis Kaim and Nützel 2010 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis shajingengi Hautmann et al. 2011 scallop
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia liuqiaoensis He et al. 2007 scallop
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Scythentolium scutigerulus Hautmann et al. 2011 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Towapteria scythica Wirth 1936 oyster
"Bakevellia ceratophaga" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) ceratophaga von Schlotheim 1816 oyster
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus cf. rotundus Girty 1927 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella stefaniae Hautmann 2015 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Orbicoelia speciosa" = Speciothyris speciosa
"Orbicoelia speciosa" = Speciothyris speciosa Wang 1955
Tentaculita
 Microconchida -
Microconchus aberrans Hohenstein 1913