A new Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Zhongzhai section (South China) Part 3: Productida

Abstract

Zhang, Y., He, W.H., Shi, G.R., Zhang, K.X. & Wu, H.T., 26.2.2015. A new Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Zhongzhai section (South China) Part 3: Productida. Alcheringa 39, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518.

As the third and last part of a systematic palaeontological study of the brachiopod fauna from the Permian–Triassic boundary section at Zhongzhai in Guizhou Province (South China), this paper reports 15 species (including three new species: Tethyochonetes minor sp. nov., Neochonetes (Zhongyingia) transversa sp. nov., Paryphella acutula sp. nov.) in Order Productida. In addition, the morphological features and definitions of several key Changhsingian brachiopod taxa (e.g., Paryphella and Oldhamina interrupta) are clarified and revised.

Yang Zhang* [[email protected]] and G.R. Shi [[email protected]], School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia; Weihong He [[email protected]] and Kexin Zhang [[email protected]], State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Huiting Wu [[email protected]], Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, PR China. *Also affiliated with: Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, PR China.

Key words:

• taxonomy
• Productida
• Brachiopoda
• Changhsingian
• Zhongzhai
• South China.

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to Miss Cheng-chen Du, Fei Teng, Mr Ting-lu Yang, Qiang Zhang, Wei Zhang and Ming-liang Yue for their help in collecting fossils during the fieldwork, and Mr Bin Chen for fossil photography. This study has been supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 41372030, 40872008, 41002012/D0202), the Ministry of Education of China (B08030 of 111 Project, NCEF-10-0712) and in part a research grant from the Australian Research Council (to G.R. Shi, grant number DP150100690). Deakin University is also acknowledged for supporting this research (to Y. Zhang and G.R. Shi).