Koh Xil-Bayan Har Terrane, sample 37-69 (Triassic of China)

Where: Xizang, China (35.5° N, 86.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 62.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandstone Unit Formation (Bayan Har Group), Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified mudstone

• siltstones, mudstones, sandstones and tuffite interbeds

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: Q. Feng, Z. Yang, X. Li and S. Crasquin. 2009. Middle and Late Triassic radiolarians from northern Tibet: implications for the Bayan Har Basin evolution. Geobios 42:581-601 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95742: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. 2" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Capnuchosphaera theloides De Wever 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Oertlispongidae
Baumgartneria trifurcata Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella claviformis Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
Paronaella norica Kozur and Mock 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
? Triassocrucella sp. Kozur 1984 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Vinassaspongus subsphaericus Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Capnodoce sp. De Wever 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Hindeosphaeridae
Hindeosphaera spinulosa Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Multiarcusellidae
Beturiella robusta Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Spongostephanidium austriacum Kozur and Mostler 1996 radiolarian
Eptingium manfredi Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Triassistephanidium anisicum Kozur and Mostler 1996 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ruesticyrtiidae
Triassocampe scalaris Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae
Corum "sp. 1" Blome 1984 radiolarian
Corum "sp. 2" Blome 1984 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera clathrata Parona 1890 radiolarian