Kantang railway, sponge sample (Triassic to of Thailand)

Where: Thailand (7.4° N, 99.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 11.7° N, 112.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Kantang Limestone Formation, Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• Age poorly constrained - informal formation name

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; black limestone

• It appears ... that the sponge-bearing limestone is as unit within a thicker interval of marine or perhaps lagoonal, calcareous sandstones and mudstones.
• dark grey to black, well-cemented and fine grained limestone. Massive.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan and M. F. Ridd. 2008. Two new Triassic sphinctozoan sponge species from near Kantang, Trnag Province, southern Thailand. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82(3):254-261 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86423: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella parva n. sp.
Amblysiphonella parva n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Ridd 2008 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Platythalamiella minima n. sp.
Platythalamiella minima n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Ridd 2008 demosponge