Where: Shaanxi, China (34.7° N, 107.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 84.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Liujiagou Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• "Late Scythian"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected in 1964-1965
• Repository: Wuhan College of Geology (now China University of Geosciences)
Primary reference: Z. Y. Yang, H. F. Yin, and H. M. Lin. 1979. Marine Triassic faunas from the Shihchienfeng Group in the northern Weihe River basin, Shaanxi province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18:465-474 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150462: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Ophiuroidea | |
? Ophiolepis shaanxiensis n. sp.
? Ophiolepis shaanxiensis n. sp. Yang 1979 brittle star | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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? Pseudospiriferina sp. Yang and Xu 1966 | |
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"Mentzelia" sp. Quenstedt 1871 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Palaeoneilo elliptica Goldfuss 1837 clam | |
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Unionites sp. Wissman 1841 clam | |
Bakevellia costata, "Gervillia exporrecta" = Bakevellia exporrecta
Bakevellia costata Schlotheim 1820 oyster
"Gervillia exporrecta" = Bakevellia exporrecta Lepsius 1878 oyster | |
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Pteria cf. murchisoni Geinitz 1861 pearl oyster | |
"Mytilus eduliformis" = Promysidiella eduliformis
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