Baingoin region (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Reef 3928

Where: Xizang, China (31.3° N, 90.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 86.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pakong Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia-Stylosmilia michelini assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified limestone

• reef limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. Liao and J. Xia. 1985. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Scleractinia from Bangoin District of northern Xizang (Tibet). Memoirs of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 21:119-164 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80571: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 28.04.2008, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia" = Adelocoenia hexaphyllia, "Pseudocoenia decipiens" = Adelocoenia pistillum, Stylosmilia michelini, Heliocoenia bendukidzeae, Heliocoenia aff. etalloni, Heliocoenia pakongensis n. sp., Stylina bangoinensis n. sp., "Cryptocoenia tabulata" = Stylina tabulata, "Stylina cf. subramosa" = Stylina inflata, Stylina parcicosta
"Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia" = Adelocoenia hexaphyllia d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
"Pseudocoenia decipiens" = Adelocoenia pistillum Fromentel 1861 stony coral
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Heliocoenia bendukidzeae Babayev 1973 stony coral
Heliocoenia aff. etalloni Koby 1881 stony coral
Heliocoenia pakongensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral
Stylina bangoinensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral
"Cryptocoenia tabulata" = Stylina tabulata Koby 1881 stony coral
"Stylina cf. subramosa" = Stylina inflata Fromentel 1856 stony coral
Stylina parcicosta Koby 1905 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cryptocoenia octosepta Etallon and Thurmann 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastrea ramulifera" = Stephanastrea ramulifera, Stephanastrea zangbeiensis n. sp.
"Actinastrea ramulifera" = Stephanastrea ramulifera Etallon and Thurmann 1864 stony coral
Stephanastrea zangbeiensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Aplosmiliidae
"Pseudocoenia bangoinensis n. sp." = Bracthelia bangoinensis
"Pseudocoenia bangoinensis n. sp." = Bracthelia bangoinensis Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Axosmilia cf. sessilis Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Epistreptophyllum cf. densum Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
Epistreptophyllum giganteum Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Kobyastraeidae
Kobyastraea tenuis Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Thamnoseris cf. blauensis Koby 1887 stony coral
"Latiastraea pakongensis n. sp." = Latiastrea pakongensis Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral
Latiastraea foulassensis Beauvais 1964 stony coral