Yilashan, Nagqu region (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Xizang, China (31.4° N, 92.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.8° N, 87.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. Liao and J. Xia. 1994. Mesozoic and Cenozoic scleractinian corals from Xizang. Palaeontologia Sinica 184(31):1-252 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87367: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Aulastraea yilashanensis Liao 1982 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Zardinophyllidae
Epismilia yilashanensis Liao 1982 stony coral