Nuanli, Jinggu (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (23.4° N, 100.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 103.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jingxing Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Stored in the Geological Museum of China, Beijing

Primary reference: Z. J. Fang, J. H. Chen, C. Z. Chen, J. G. Sha, X. Lan and S. Z. Wen. 2009. Supraspecific taxa of the Bivalvia first named, described, and published in China (1927-2007). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, New Series 17:1-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201025: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 29.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Nippononaiidae
Sinonaia jingdongensis n. sp. Guo 1981 clam
Sinonaia jingdongensis nuanliensis; Geological Museum of China, 783592e/52 (holotype), 793368/30