Level BH-3b, Section B - Germig, Tibet (Jurassic of China)

Where: Tibet, China (28.7° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 47.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Just above level B2 of ammonites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• The diverse epifauna, in combination with their common association with crinoids and a high degree of encrustation and bioerosion on the shells, suggest a shallow, warm, and low turbidity marine environment of normal salinity.

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75221: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 27.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
? Harpax "sp. A" Parkinson 1811 scallop
? Harpax "sp. B" Parkinson 1811 scallop
 Pectinida - Prospondylidae
Persia hallami Yin and McRoberts 2006 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon newelli Yin and McRoberts 2006 file clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. meriani Winkler 1859 oyster
Pinna cf. octavia Marwick 1953 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea tibetica Yin and McRoberts 2006 oyster
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam