Where: China (28.1° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° S, 43.7° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Menbu Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Menbu Fm (Callovian-E. Tithonian), which underlies the Tithonian Shuomo Fm. THICKNESS: From bed within upper 40 m of a 78 m thick exposure of Menbu Fm. AGE: Oxfordian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle part of formation above Callovian age bed 7 (PBDB# 64862) and below bed 9 (PBDB# 64864).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Collected during 1980-1981; reported by Gou and Li, 1983. REPOSITORY: Beijing Graduate School, Wuhan College of Geology, China.
Primary reference: X. Li and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 1988. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Buchia (Bivalvia) from southern Tibet, and some wider considerations. Alcheringa 12:249-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64863: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.09.2006
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Mayaites aff. obesus ammonite
Dhosaites elephantoides ammonite
Dhosaites primus Spath 1928 ammonite
? Epimayaites lemoini Spath 1924 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |