Where: Xinjiang, China (38.0° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 44.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Heshilafu Formation), Chadian to Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)
• Buxtonia pseudoscabricula Zone (Vbu Zone), late early Visean to early middle Visean.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Primary reference: Z.-Q. Chen. 2004. Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography. Geological Journal 39:431-458 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50253: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tomiopsis sp. Benediktova 1956 | |
Martinia glabra Sowerby 1821
Martinia pentagonalis Jin and Hu 1978 | |
"Brachythyris cf. suborbicularis" = Spirifer suborbicularis, "Unispirifer aff. tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis, Unispirifer heshilafuensis
"Brachythyris cf. suborbicularis" = Spirifer suborbicularis Hall 1858
"Unispirifer aff. tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis de Koninck 1883 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Strophomenata | |
Overtonia sp., Krotovia aff. lamellosa, Krotovia spinulosa, Avonia banffensis, Geniculifera brevicula, Eomarginifera lobata, Eomarginifera schartimiensis
Krotovia spinulosa Sowerby 1814
Geniculifera brevicula Carter 1967
Eomarginifera schartimiensis Janischewsky 1900 | |