Tulong Tu16: Smithian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905
2 specimens
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Jinyaceras hindostanum (Diener 1897)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Brayardites compressus Brühwiler et al. 2010
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Xizang
Coordinates: 28.4° North, 86.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° South, 64.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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: Brayardites compressus
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 248.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tulong
Local section:Tulong Local bed:2.6 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Brayardites compressus beds, early Smithian, not formally named as a zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Lithology description: Thin-bedded limestone
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
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:97330
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-23 15:05:44 Last modified:2016-03-15 13:50:52
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-23 15:05:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33146. T. Brühwiler, H. Bucher, and N. Goudemand. 2010. Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Tulong, south Tibet. Geobios 43:403-431 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]