CD261, Ban Nawai Section, Chiang Dao area (Triassic of Thailand)

Where: Thailand (19.5° N, 98.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 86.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• late Illyrian (early late Anisian)

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, brown, gray chert

• brown and grey cherts with claystone partings and siliceous shale intercalations. Thickness of the chert beds ranges between 3 and 10 cm

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: H. Thassanapak, Q. L. Feng, J. Grant-Mackie, C. Chonglakmani, and N. Thanee. 2011. Middle Triassic radiolarian faunas from Chiang Dao, Northern Thailand. Palaeoworld 20:179-202 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 130528: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 10.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Acropyramididae
Celluronta sp.
Celluronta sp. Sugiyama 1997 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Cryptostephanidium sp., Cryptostephanidium cornigerum, Eptingium manfredi
Cryptostephanidium sp. Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Cryptostephanidium cornigerum Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Eptingium manfredi Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium antiquum
Plafkerium antiquum Sugiyama 1992 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Oertlispongidae
Oertlispongus cf. hermi