Zuodeng southwest, Tiandong County (Triassic of China)

Also known as Tsoteng

Where: Guangxi, China (23.5° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 97.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loulou Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Zhao and Y. G. Wang. 1974. Triassic ammonoids. Handbook of the Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Southwest China 344-351 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99907: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
"Meekoceras pulchriforme" = Submeekoceras mushbachanum
"Meekoceras pulchriforme" = Submeekoceras mushbachanum White 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras multilobatum Noetling 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite