Nam Mu Formation, Song Da Basin, NW Vietnam (Triassic of Vietnam)

Where: Vietnam (21.5° N, 104.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 88.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Nam Mu Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• 900-1200 m thick.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• Clay shale, locally metamorphosed into platy schist, grading upward to sandstone, siltstone, and clay shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Khuc. 2000. The Triassic of Indochina Peninsula and its interregional correlation. Permian-Triassic Evolution of Tethys and Western Circum-Pacific 221-233 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 44769: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.09.2004, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Zittelhalobia superba
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia substyriaca, Halobia talauana, Halobia austriaca
Halobia talauana Wanner 1907 oyster
Halobia austriaca Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Haloritidae
Anatomites sp.
Anatomites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Juvavitidae
Juvavites sp.
Juvavites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Margaritropites fongthoensis, Discotropites sp.
Discotropites sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite