Where: Guangxi, China (23.7° N, 109.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 16.9° S, 108.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Talung Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• the uppermost Changhsingian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S.Z. Shen; reposited in the NIGPAS
Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, J. Ramezani, J. Chen, C.-Q. Cao, D. H. Erwin, H. Zhang, L. Xiang, S. D. Schoepfer, C. M. Henderson, Q.-F. Zheng, S. A. Bowring, Y. Wang, X.-H. Li, X.-D. Wang, D.-X. Yuan, Y.-C. Zhang, L. Mu, J. Wang, and Y. S. Wu. 2019. A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China. Geological Society of America [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
? Phylladoderma sp. Zalessky 1914 | |
Pteropsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Asterophyllites sp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Rhipidopsis | |
Sphenopsida | |
Cycadopsida | |
Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads | |
Compsopteris contracta cycads
Compsopteris imparis cycads | |
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828 | |