Level A2, Section A - Germig, Tibet (Jurassic of China)

Also known as BH-4 of Yin and McRoberts (2006)

Where: China (28.7° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 47.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Germig Formation, Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, gray, calcareous sandstone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Yin and C. A. McRoberts. 2006. Latest Triassic–earliest Jurassic bivalves of the Germig formation from Lanongla (Tibet, China). Journal of Paleontology 80(1):104-120 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73908: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Mariann Bosnakoff on 12.07.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Nevadaphyllites cf. psilomorphus" = Phylloceras psilomorphum
"Nevadaphyllites cf. psilomorphus" = Phylloceras psilomorphum Neumayr 1879 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Neophyllites cf. biptychus Lange 1941 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea tibetica n. sp. Yin and McRoberts 2006 oyster