Tha Cho, loc. 8 (Triassic to of Vietnam)

Where: Vietnam (21.8° N, 106.8° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 97.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Na Khuat Formation, Anisian to Anisian (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• lower part of the formation, Costatoria paucicostata-Hoernesia angusta assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone and lithified sandstone

• outer shelf
• thick bioturbated mudstone with intercalated very-fine- to fine-grained sandstone beds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: T. Komatsu, D. T. Huyen, and N. D. Huu. 2010. Radiation of Middle Triassic bivalve: bivalve assemblages characterized by infaunal and semi-infaunal burrowers in a storm- and wave-dominated shelf, An Chau Basin, north Vietnam. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 291:190-204 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99739: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana subperlongata pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Prosoleptus lineata Goldfuss 1837 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma" sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Lilangina sp. Diener 1908 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
Pteria sturi Bittner 1895 pearl oyster
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Unionites sp. Wissman 1841 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria sp. Waagen 1907 clam
Costatoria goldfussi Alberti 1830 clam
subsp. mansuyi
 Trigoniida - Trigonodidae