Khao Cha Ang On, Klaeng area (Triassic of Thailand)

Also known as Reef 392

Where: Thailand (12.8° N, 101.7° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 97.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified wackestone

• Algal boundstones were mentioned but most probably cyanophyceans dominate.
• algal boundstones and bioclastic wackestones

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Vachard and H. Fontaine. 1988. Biostratigraphic importance of Triassic foraminifera and algae from South-East Asia. Revue de Paleobiologie 7(1):87-98 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67684: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cladogirvanella cipitensis
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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Koivaella sp. Chuvashov 1974
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
unclassified
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Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Duostominidae indet. Brotzen 1963
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Lituolidae indet. de Blainville 1825
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes ex gr. obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes ex gr. obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Ladinella porata
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