Tuoba, Qamdo County (Tuoba Fm) (Permian of China)

Where: Xizang, China (31.3° N, 97.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 78.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuoba Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y.G. Jin and D. L. Sun. 1981. Paleozoic brachiopods from Xizang (Tibet). Paleontology of Xizang, Book III, The Series of the Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 127-171 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110087: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Waagenites convexa" = Tethyochonetes convexa
"Waagenites convexa" = Tethyochonetes convexa Yang and Fang 1964
F153
 Productida -
Spinomarginifera lopingensis Kayser 1883
ft7051, F121
 Productida - Productidae
Tyloplecta crassica Jin and Sun 1981
ft75210
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Semibrachythyrina mahaensis" = Alphaneospirifer mahaensis
"Semibrachythyrina mahaensis" = Alphaneospirifer mahaensis Huang 1933
f103
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Squamularia superba n. sp. Jin and Sun 1981
f121
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea tobaensis n. sp. Jin and Sun 1981
ft7440, ft7441