Jushui base, Sichuan, China: Carnian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Astraeomorpha crassiseptata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia clathrata (Emmrich 1853)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarophyllia decora Wu 1975
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Oppelismilia sp. Duncan 1867
    = Stylophyllopsis sp. Frech 1890
Kiessling 2008
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora cf. nigra
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
? Macroporella sp. Pia 1912
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Sichuan County:Anxian
Coordinates: 31.6° North, 104.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.0° North, 83.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Carnian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Carnian
Key time interval:Carnian
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hanwang Member:Lower
Local section:Jushui
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: Oolite bank facies
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: faunal list only
Metadata
Database number:25407
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-09-11 11:37:54 Last modified:2002-09-11 14:37:55
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-11 11:37:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7116. X. Wu. 1989. Carnian (Upper Triassic) sponge mounds of the northwestern Sichuan Basin, China: Stratigraphy, facies and paleoecology. Facies 21:171-188 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

26431 W. Kiessling. 2008. New opinions on coral taxonomy. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]