Where: Qinghai, China (33.3° N, 91.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 89.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Suwa Formation (Tanggula Group), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• shell bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine
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 37918: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 27.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys laevis scallop |