Eastern Tianshan, Yamansu Fm, Unit 2, Bed 61 (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (41.9° N, 93.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 60.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yamansu Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Late Visean

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Huang, M. Aretz, X. Zhang, Y. Du, and T. Luand. 2018. Upper Viséan coral biostrome in a volcanic-sedimentary setting from the Eastern Tianshan, Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 531(B):108739-108739 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195847: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 28.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp.
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Yuanophyllum kansuense
Yuanophyllum kansuense Yu 1931 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia sp.
Palaeosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Stauriida - Bothrophyllidae
Bothrophyllum sp.
Bothrophyllum sp. Trautschold 1879 horn coral