Tanggula Mountains, Wenquan Section, Suwa Formation (Jurassic of China)

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

• The province represents extensive marginal marine environments ranging from nearshore shelf to restricted embayments, lagoons and freshwater lakes.
• The Suwa Fm at Wenquan Fm is composed of limestones, marls, fine-grained sandstones and silty sandstones.

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae