Locality B18, southeast of Damxung, Lhasa Terrane (Carboniferous to of China)

Where: Xizang, China (30.5° N, 91.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 52.5° S, 87.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pondo Group, Pennsylvanian to Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 295.5 Ma)

• ?late Carboniferous - Asselian, Lower Permian; at top of mixtites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone

• offshore marine shelf facies
• cleaved mudrocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Paleontological collections made on the 1985 Geotraverse.

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and J. Xu. 1988. Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 327:53-105 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61392: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
indet. crinoid debris
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
indet. trepostome bryozoans
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
? Reteporidra sp. Nickles and Bassler 1900
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida -
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"cf. Tornquistia tropicalis" = Neotornquistia tropicalis
"cf. Tornquistia tropicalis" = Neotornquistia tropicalis Grant 1976
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster