Mayao, Xainza (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Xizang, China (31.4° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 84.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langshan Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Löser and W. Liao. 2001. Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 19:661-667 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74279: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Opisthophyllidae
Pseudopisthophyllum rariseptata Liao 1982 stony coral
misspelled as Pseudopistophyllum rariseptata
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia mayaoensis Liao 1982 stony coral