Where: Qinghai, China (33.3° N, 90.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 87.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tuotuohe Formation (Yanshiping Group), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,
• focus on bivalves
Primary reference: J. Yin and F. T. Fürsich. 1991. Middle and Upper Jurassic bivalves from the Tanggula Mountains, W-China. Beringeria, Würzburger geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 4:127-192 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37901: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 27.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Plicatula costata n. sp.
? Plicatula costata n. sp. scallop |