Pingdingshan, Bed 8, Chaohu City (Permian of China)

Where: Anhui, China (31.6° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 96.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 3.94 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, black, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Black-gray thin to medium-bedded limestone with chert nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. C. Chen, Y. Y. Yan, and D. L. Qi. 1983. Chusenophyllum (Rugose coral) from the Chihsia Formation of Lower Permian, southern Anhui. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22(5):510-516 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100202: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Cystomichelinia largissima, Cystomichelinia baoxingensis
 Auloporida - Tetraporellidae
Hayasakaia raricystata
Hayasakaia raricystata Zhao and Chen 1963 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Yatsengia asiatica
Yatsengia asiatica Huang 1932 horn coral