Locality B58, B58.63, 18 km south of Wenquan army station, Qiangtang Terrane: Callovian - Kimmeridgian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cyadopites sp.
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Systematophora areolata Klement 1960
dinoflagellate
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Qinghai
Coordinates: 33.1° North, 91.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.7° North, 89.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yanshiping
Local section:Locality B58 Local bed:63
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Jurassic ?Bathonian/Callovian - Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian; bed 63
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: coastal plain facies with marine incursions and some lacustrine horizons
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Paleontological collections made on the 1985 Geotraverse.
Metadata
Database number:68574
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:micropaleontology,paleobotany
Created:2007-01-28 06:17:30 Last modified:2007-02-06 04:45:01
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-28 06:17:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17531. A. B. Smith and J. Xu. 1988. Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 327:53-105 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]