Chaoyangtun, Hulin (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Chaoyangcun

Where: Heilongjiang, China (45.8° N, 132.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 133.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yunshan Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Stored in Shenyang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Shenyang, Liaoning, northeastern China

Primary reference: Z. J. Fang, J. H. Chen, C. Z. Chen, J. G. Sha, X. Lan and S. Z. Wen. 2009. Supraspecific taxa of the Bivalvia first named, described, and published in China (1927-2007). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, New Series 17:1-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200931: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 24.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Allobuchia apiculata n. sp. Yu 1983 scallop
Shenyang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, BH1557a (holotype), BH1558a-b, 1559, 1560