Where: Zhejiang, China (31.1° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 101.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yinkeng Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen, G. R. Shi, and K. Kaiho. 2002. A new genus of rhynchonellid brachiopod from the Lower Triassic of south China and implications for timing the recovery of Brachiopoda after the end-permian mass extinction. Palaeontology 45(1):149-164 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105116: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Meishanorhynchia meishanensis n. gen.
Meishanorhynchia meishanensis n. gen. Chen and Shi 2002 |