Where: China (28.0° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° S, 43.8° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Menbu Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 152.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Menbu Fm, which underlies the Tithonian Shuomo Fm. THICKNESS: From bed within 510 m thick exposure of Menbu Fm. AGE: Callovian-Kimmeridgian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle part of Menbu Fm, several hundred m below PBDB# 64877 and several hundred m above PBDB# 64880.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone
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 64879: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Buchia spitiensis scallop
Buchia concentrica White 1888 scallop |