Where: Xizang, China (35.3° N, 82.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 66.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)
• Lower Permian, formation not given but stated to be same age as other localities.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: Z. Q. Deng. 1982. Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil sponges of Xizang. Series of the Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Paleontology of Xizang 4:189-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107304: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Maeandrostia rostrata n. sp.
Maeandrostia rostrata n. sp. Deng 1982 demosponge |