Middle Permian smaller foraminifers from the Maokou Formation at the Tieqiao section,Guangxi, South China |
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Institution: | 1. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China;3. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China;4. Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China |
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Abstract: | This paper documents smaller foraminifers from the Maokou Formation (Guadalupian) at the Tieqiao section in Laibin area, South China. The assemblage of smaller foraminifers reported herein consists of 69 species of 42 genera. Although the Maokou Formation of this section was deposited in a relatively deep-water environment, smaller foraminifers are diverse and abundant, especially in debris flow deposits and thin turbidite beds. This fauna bears most similarity with coeval foraminiferal assemblages from the other Palaeotethyan regions. There is a sharp decrease in the diversity and abundance of smaller foraminifers at the lithological boundary between the Maokou and Heshan formations. An overwhelming majority of genera of smaller foraminifers that occur in the Maokou Formation at this section can be found in the Lopingian strata of South China. The study of smaller foraminiferal fauna of the Guadalupian at the Tieqiao section indicates a much less pronounced effect of the pre-Lopingian crisis on smaller foraminifers. |
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Keywords: | Smaller foraminifers Maokou Formation Pre-Lopingian crisis Tieqiao section South China |
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