Koh Xil-Bayan Har Terrane, sample 37-26 (Triassic of China)

Where: Xizang, China (35.5° N, 86.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 65.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Slate Unit Formation (Bayan Har Group), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert

• radiolarian chert, siltstones, mudstones and tuffite interbeds

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: Q. Feng, Z. Yang, X. Li and S. Crasquin. 2009. Middle and Late Triassic radiolarians from northern Tibet: implications for the Bayan Har Basin evolution. Geobios 42:581-601 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95740: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Ruesticyrtiidae
Triassocampe "sp. 2"
Triassocampe "sp. 2" Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Hindeosphaeridae
Sepsagon robustus
Sepsagon robustus Lahm 1984 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Triassistephanidium anisicum, Triassistephanidium laticornis, Eptingium nakasekoi
Triassistephanidium anisicum Kozur and Mostler 1996 radiolarian
Triassistephanidium laticornis Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Eptingium nakasekoi Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pyramispongiidae
Paurinella latispinosa
Paurinella latispinosa Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Oertlispongidae
Falcispongus falciformis, "Pseudoertlispongus weddigei" = Paroertlispongus, Baumgartneria sp.
Falcispongus falciformis Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian
"Pseudoertlispongus weddigei" = Paroertlispongus radiolarian
Baumgartneria sp. Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian