The presence of a rich biota in a near-Equatorial paleolatitude implies that, immediately after the Permian extinction event, global temperatures must have been tolerable for life even at the tropics - it was previously thought that the greenhouse climate would have reduced or eliminated biodiversity at low latitudes.

Two coelacanth species, ranging between 50 and 100 cm, are the largest animals so far identified; the presence of these relatively large predators suggests the ecosystem was fully functional.

Actinopterygii are represented by ten species in six orders: Palaeonisciformes, Ptycholepiformes, Acipenseriformes, Perleidiformes, Polzbergiiformes and Parasemionotiformes.

Decapoda are represented, among others, by two of the oldest shrimps ever found: one a species of the genus Anisaeger and the other an undetermined member of Aegeridae.

The presence of such a complete ecosystem implies that either components of all trophic levels managed to survive the Permian-Triassic extinction event, or they re-evolved very rapidly.