Ophiuroids, Middle Triassic, Gulin, Sichuan: Olenekian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ophiuroidea
- Ophiurida
- Ophiuridae
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Ophiolepis gulinensis
Feng 1985
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Sichuan | County: | Gulin |
| Coordinates: | 31.6° North, 120.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.8° North, 101.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| *Period: | Middle Triassic - Middle Triassic | ||
| Key time interval: | Olenekian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 251.2 - 247.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Feihsienkuan |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32501 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Villier | Enterer: | L. Villier |
| Modifier: | L. Villier | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-07-06 08:18:07 | Last modified: | 2006-06-24 13:06:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-06 08:18:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8764. | R.-L. Feng. 1985. New discovery of fossil ophiuroids from Guizhou and southern Sichuan, China. Acta Paleontologica Sinica 24(3):337-343 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier] |
Secondary references:
| 17401 | Z. Q. Chen, G. R. Shi, and K. Kaiho. 2004. New ophiuroids from the Permian/Triassic boundary beds of South China. Palaeontology 47(5):1301-1312 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel] |