Also known as Reef 57
Where: Guizhou, China (25.4° N, 105.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 93.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zhuganpo Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• The Yanliujing ranges from uppermost Anisian to lower Ladinian. A Ladinian age is indicated by the reference. From Deng 2006: On the basis of a research of bivalves the coral-bearing horizon had been proven not the Yanliujing Formation but the Zhuganpo Formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Reposited in the NIGPAS
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: Z. Q. Deng and L. Kong. 1984. Middle Triassic corals and sponges from southern Guizhou and eastern Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23(4):489-504 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 13.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Elasmophyllia" aff. milchi Volz 1896 stony coral | |
Zardinophyllum cf. quinqueseptata Tornquist 1900 stony coral | |
Volzeia chagyabensis Deng and Zhang 1984 stony coral | |
Gablonzeria sp. Cuif 1976 stony coral | |
Substuoresia cf. vogelsangi Eck 1879 stony coral | |
Neoconophyllia xiaanensis n. sp., Submargarosmilia beipanjiangensis n. sp., Margarophyllia sp., Margarophyllia zhenfengensis n. sp., Margarophyllia inculta n. sp.
Neoconophyllia xiaanensis n. sp. Deng and Kong 1984 stony coral
Submargarosmilia beipanjiangensis n. sp. Deng and Kong 1984 stony coral
Margarophyllia sp. Volz 1896 stony coral
Margarophyllia zhenfengensis n. sp. Deng and Kong 1984 stony coral
Margarophyllia inculta n. sp. Deng and Kong 1984 stony coral | |
Coryphyllia xiaanensis n. sp.
Coryphyllia xiaanensis n. sp. Deng and Kong 1984 stony coral | |
Procyathophora aff. furstenbergensis Eck 1880 stony coral | |
Pinacophyllum spizzensis Tornquist 1899 stony coral |