Tsoteng Section T6: Smithian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Jinyaceras n. gen. bellum Brayard and Bucher 2008
Hebeisenites n. gen. varians (Chao 1959)
Paranannites subangulosus Brayard and Bucher 2008
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Submeekoceras mushbachanum (White 1879)
    = Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni Chao 1959
Shigeta and Nguyen 2014
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Pseudaspidites muthianus (Krafft and Diener 1909)
Nanningites n. gen. tientungense (Chao 1959)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Flemingites flemingianus (de Koninck 1863)
    = Flemingites rursiradiatus Chao 1959
Brühwiler et al. 2012
Flemingites radiatus Waagen 1895
synonym of Flemingites nanus
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905
Pseudaspenites layeriformis (Welter 1922)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana Chao 1959
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 107.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.8° North, 97.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Smithian Ammonoid zone: Flemingites rursiradiatus
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 248.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Tsoteng Local bed:0.6 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Flemingites rursiradiatus beds, not named as a formal zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Environment:slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:97135
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:C. Feng Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-18 17:54:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-18 17:54:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32448. A. Brayard and H. Bucher. 2008. Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology. Fossils and Strata 55:1-179 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

44696 T. Brühwiler, H. Bucher, D. Ware, E. Schneebeli-Hermann, P. A. Hochuli, G. Roohi, K. Rehman and A. Yaseen. 2012. Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan. Special Papers in Palaeontology 88:5-114 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]
50776 Y. Shigeta and H. D. Nguyen. 2014. Cephalopods. In Y. Shigeta, T. Komatsu, T. Maekawa, H. T. Dang (eds.), Olenekian (Early Triassic) stratigraphy and fossil assemblages in northeastern Vietnam. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 45:65-167 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]