Where: Guangxi, China (23.5° N, 107.6° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 98.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Majiaoling Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• Lower part of 2.90 m thick bed
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. R. Yang, X. P. Wang, and W. C. Hao. 1986. Early Triassic bivalve assemblage of western Guangxi. Journal of Stratigraphy 10:88-97 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121129: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
Entolium discites Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Claraia "sp. A" Bittner 1901 scallop
Claraia "sp. B" Bittner 1901 scallop
"Claraia yunnanensis" = Claraia radialis Leonardi 1935 scallop | |
Eumorphotis sp. Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Towapteria sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968 oyster
Towapteria scythica Wirth 1936 oyster | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima
"Lingula tenuissima" = Lingularia tenuissima Bronn 1837 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Crurithyris flabelliformis" = Orbicoelia flabelliformis, "Crurithyris" sp.
"Crurithyris flabelliformis" = Orbicoelia flabelliformis Liao 1979
"Crurithyris" sp. George 1931 |