Nantong Section, P-T Bed 5: Changhsingian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris flabelliformis Liao 1979
recombined as Orbicoelia flabelliformis
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula fuyuanensis Liao 1980
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Sichuan
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 106.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.2° North, 94.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Changhsingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Changhsingian
Age range of interval:254.14000 - 251.90200 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Feixianguan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 0.18 m thick, within transitional beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Light gray thin-bedded limestone yielding brachiopods
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:117504
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-22 14:31:59 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-22 14:31:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29971. S. Z. Shen, X. L. He, and G. R. Shi. 1995. Biostratigraphy and correlation of several Permian-Triassic boundary sections in southwestern China. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences 12(1-2):19-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]