Paojianggou section, SW Tarim, foremound facies (Carboniferous of China)

Also known as Reef 4183

Where: China (37.5° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 58.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Azigan Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• upper Azigan

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; cherty/siliceous limestone and marl

• At outcrop, it is represented by alternations of thick-bedded bioclastic limestone and thin-bedded marlstone layers

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: Z.-Q. Chen. 2012. A Late Carboniferous algal mound from the Tarim Basin, NW China: internal structure and palaeoecology. Geological Journal 47:477-494 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191877: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp.
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulina sp.
Fusulina sp. Schellwien 1898
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyina sp.