Cephalopods of the "Falang Formation" (Triassic) from Guanling and Zhenfeng Counties, Guizhou Province, China

Q91%P5; The "Falang Formation" of western Guizhou was previously called the "Halobia Bed" and considered to beLadinian in age. It was subdivided upward into the Zhuganpo, Laishike and Longchang members based on ammonites andthe Trachyceras multitubertulatum Zone of the Longchang Member was put in the Lower Carnian. Here in the presentpaper, 4 genera and 9 species of ammonites and 1 nautiloid genus and species collected from the upper part of the "FalangFormation" (i.e. the Wayao Formation used in this paper, equivalent to the Laishike Member from Guanling and Zhenfengcounties are described. The geological and geographical distribution of these cephalopods, as well as the co-existingconodonts, put the Wayao Formation to the late early Carnian.