Where: Xizang, China (31.4° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 84.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langshan Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NIGPAS
Primary reference: D. L. Sun. 1981. The Mesozoic brachiopods of Xizang. Palaeontology of Xizang, Book III, The Series of the Scientific Expedition to Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 177-260 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132639: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia cf. praedispansa Pettitt 1954 | |
Parakingena xizangensis n. gen. n. sp.
Parakingena xizangensis n. gen. n. sp. Sun 1981 | |
Sellithyris mayuensis n. sp., Praelongithyris xiongmeinensis n. sp.
Sellithyris mayuensis n. sp. Sun 1981
Praelongithyris xiongmeinensis n. sp. Sun 1981 | |
Platythyris xanzaensis n. sp., Platythyris ovalis n. sp.
Platythyris xanzaensis n. sp. Sun 1981
Platythyris ovalis n. sp. Sun 1981 |