Cuozalang Section, 21P17, Baidui (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Beidui; Lhasa Basin

Where: Tibet, China (29.3° N, 92.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 88.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Yeba Formation), Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

• "Bivalve-bearing beds are siltstones c. 1 m thick, intercalated within volcanic sediments." (Yin & Grant-Mackie 2005)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Yin and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 2005. Late Triassic–Jurassic bivalves from volcanic sediments of the Lhasa block, Tibet. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 48:555-576 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201852: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myoida -
Jurassicorbula fuersichi n. sp. Yin and Grant-Mackie 2005 clam
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia cf. stricklandi Morris and Lycett 1853 cockle