Huangzhishan section, upper bed 12, Huzhou city: Changhsingian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Promyalina sp. Kittl 1903
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria ussurica (Kiparisova 1938)
subspecies rariabilis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Oxytoma scythicum Wirth 1936
recombined as Towapteria scythica
Bakevellia costata (Schlotheim 1820)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Praechlamys) wuxingensis Li 1982
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Ornithopecten sp. Cox 1961
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria virgalensis Wittenburg 1908
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium discites (Schlotheim 1820)
subspecies microtis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Orbicoelia speciosa (Wang 1955)
Chen et al. 2006
recombined as Speciothyris speciosa
(4 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Kotlaia strophiria (Xu and Grant 1994)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Tethyochonetes quadrata (Zhan 1979)
recombined as Fusichonetes quadrata
Tethyochonetes soochowensis (Chao 1928)
recombined as Fusichonetes soochowensis
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Paryphella triquetra Liao 1981
synonym of Paryphella orbicularis
Strophomenata - Productida
Spinomarginifera kueichowensis Huang 1932
Blastoidea
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Huangzhishania permotriassica n. gen., n. sp. Chen et al. 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Zhejiang
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 120.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.3° North, 101.9° 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 Conodont zone: Clarkina meishanensis
Age range of interval:254.14000 - 251.90200 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huangzhishan
Local section:Huangzhishan Local bed:upper part of bed 12
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: brown-green, medium bedded, calcareous mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: nearshore, shallow water, subtidal, low-energy environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:bed 12 is a Mixed Fauna Bed with Permian-type brachiopods and Triassic-type bivalves
Metadata
Database number:60533
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Clapham Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-17 05:20:40 Last modified:2012-03-31 12:02:19
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-17 05:20:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17401. Z. Q. Chen, G. R. Shi, and K. Kaiho. 2004. New ophiuroids from the Permian/Triassic boundary beds of South China. Palaeontology 47(5):1301-1312 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

27897 Z. Q. Chen, K. Kaiho, A. D. George and J. N. Tong. 2006. Survival brachiopod faunas of the end-Permian mass extinction from the southern Alps (Italy) and South China. Geological Magazine 143(3):301-327 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]