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A late Changhsingian (Late Permian) deepwater brachiopod fauna from the Talung Formation at the Dongpan Section, southern Guangxi, South China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Weihong He ,
Shu-Zhong Shen ,
Qinglai Feng  and
Songzhu Gu
Weihong He
Affiliation:
Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China, , ,
Shu-Zhong Shen
Affiliation:
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, P. R. China,
Qinglai Feng
Affiliation:
Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China, , ,
Songzhu Gu
Affiliation:
Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China, , ,
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Abstract

This paper describes a unique deepwater brachiopod fauna from the upper part of the Talung Formation at the Dongpan Section, southern Guangxi, South China. This brachiopod fauna includes 10 species belonging to 10 genera. New taxa are Anidanthus mucronata n. sp., Dongpanoproductus elegans n. gen. and sp., Costatumulus dongpanensis n. sp., and Spinomarginifera semicircridge n. sp. This fauna is characterized by small, thin-shelled species with high abundance and low diversity, and therefore is different in generic and species composition from the coeval faunas of the Late Permian limestone facies in South China. The brachiopod fauna can be safely assigned to the latest Changhsingian as indicated by the presence of abundant Paracrurithyris pigmaea, the immediately underlying radiolarian Neoalbaillella optima Zone of late Changhsingian age, and the overlying ammonoid Ophiceras sp. cf. O. tingi Tien of the lowest Triassic. This fauna is most likely to have lived in a deepwater environment as indicated by coexistence with the radiolarian Latentifistularia, small thin-shelled brachiopods, and the dominance of silica-bearing mudstone.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 79 , Issue 5 , September 2005 , pp. 927 - 938
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