Where: Xizang, China (31.4° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 85.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langshan Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 100.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Löser and W. Liao. 2001. Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 19:661-667 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74275: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Preverastraea isseli Prever 1909 stony coral | |
Dendrosmilia crassa Reuss 1854 stony coral | |
"Complexastrea lobata" = Complexastrea seriata, Isastrea sp.
"Complexastrea lobata" = Complexastrea seriata Turnsek 1972 stony coral
Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Cyathophora gomangcoensis n. sp.
Cyathophora gomangcoensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral |