Also known as Reef 3295
Where: Xinjiang, China (39.8° N, 77.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 67.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eoparafusulina contractus foram zone, Piqiang Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• Presumably ranging through the whole Sakmarian. PJW: given as Eoparafusulina contractus zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified framestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,
• Good taxonomic data only on brachiopods. Prevailing sponges not studied
Primary reference: Z.-Q. Chen, G. R. Shi, and W.-R. Yang. 2003. Internal Structure and Paleoecology of the Lower Permian Uzunbulak Reef Complex of the Tarim Basin, Northwest China. Facies 49:119-134 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35513: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Glossothyropsis sinuata Stehli 1954 | |
Strophomenata | |
Teguliferina irregularis Wang 1983 | |
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Thartharella | |
Thartharella sp. Elliott 1962 | |
"Inozoa" indet. Steinmann 1882 | |
Hydrozoa | |
Shamovella | |
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Archaeolithoporella sp. Endo 1959 |