Locality B108, neighbouring gulley, Dagangou, north Kunlun Shan (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Qinghai, China (36.1° N, 94.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 64.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dagangou Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Dagangou and Diasosu Formations; limestone band towrads the top of the section in a neighbouring gulley; Upper Carboniferous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Marine limestone units within a thick fluviatile sequence

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 68637: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Corals
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
? Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Echinoconchus cf. fasciatus" = Karavankina fasciata
"Echinoconchus cf. fasciatus" = Karavankina fasciata Kutorga 1844
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia sp. M'Coy 1844
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae