Lincheng Coal Field: Pennsylvanian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Palaeolucina carbonaria n. sp. Chao 1927
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Cypricardinia sinensis n. sp. Chao 1927
7 specimens
recombined as Neocypricardinia sinensis
NIGPAS 30782 (holotype), 30783 - 30788
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Cucullopsis quadrata n. sp. Chao 1927
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hebei
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 114.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.5° North, 79.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4-5
Key time interval:Pennsylvanian
Age range of interval:323.20000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Taiyuan Member:Houkou
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Houkou limestone, Taiyuan Formation, upper Carboniferous" (Fang et al. 2009)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NIGPAS
Metadata
Database number:200833
Authorizer:A. Dunhill Enterer:B. Allen
Created:2019-04-21 11:02:29 Last modified:2019-04-21 11:02:29
Access level:the public Released:2019-04-21 11:02:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47190. Z. J. Fang, J. H. Chen, C. Z. Chen, J. G. Sha, X. Lan and S. Z. Wen. 2009. Supraspecific taxa of the Bivalvia first named, described, and published in China (1927-2007). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, New Series 17:1-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]