Yamansu (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (41.9° N, 93.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 70.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sanquanzi Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Lower Moscovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Webster, J. A. Waters, Z. T. Liao and C. G. Maples. 2009. New Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) echinoderms from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, western China. Palaeoworld 18:241-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92637: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus sp. Phillips 1836 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinitidae indet. Bassler 1938 Sea lily
Platycrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily