Pingdingshan, Bed 12, 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)

• 33.28 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Dark gray to black thin to medium-bedded limestone

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 100206: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Yatsengia sp. Huang 1932 horn coral
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Polythecalis yangtzeensis Huang 1932 horn coral
Polythecalis nankingensis Tseng 1950 horn coral
Polythecalis regularis Fontaine 1961 horn coral
Polythecalis irregularis Yu et al. 1981 horn coral
Polythecalis chinensis Girty 1907 horn coral
 Auloporida - Tetraporellidae
Hayasakaia yunnanensis Lin 1958 tabulate coral
Hayasakaia elegantula Yabw and Hayasaka 1915 tabulate coral
Tetraporinus aequitabulata Huang 1932 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
"Sinopora dendroides" = Multithecopora dendroidea
"Sinopora dendroides" = Multithecopora dendroidea Yoh 1932 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Protomichelinia cf. microstoma Yabe and Hayasaka 1915 tabulate coral
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae