PBDB Collection

Baingoin region (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Reef 3928

Where: Xizang, China (31.3° N, 90.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 86.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pakong Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia-Stylosmilia michelini assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified limestone

• reef limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. Liao and J. Xia. 1985. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Scleractinia from Bangoin District of northern Xizang (Tibet). Memoirs of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 21:119-164 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80571: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 28.04.2008, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae	Cryptocoenia octosepta Cryptocoenia octosepta Etallon 1864 stony coral
Scleractinia - Agatheliidae	"Pseudocoenia bangoinensis n. sp." = Bracthelia bangoinensis "Pseudocoenia bangoinensis n. sp." = Bracthelia bangoinensis Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral
Scleractinia - Stylinidae	"Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia" = Adelocoenia hexaphyllia, "Pseudocoenia decipiens" = Adelocoenia pistillum, Heliocoenia pakongensis n. sp., Heliocoenia aff. etalloni, Heliocoenia bendukidzeae, Stylina parcicosta, Stylina bangoinensis n. sp., "Stylina cf. subramosa" = Stylina inflata, "Cryptocoenia tabulata" = Stylina tabulata, Stylosmilia michelini "Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia" = Adelocoenia hexaphyllia d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral "Pseudocoenia decipiens" = Adelocoenia pistillum Fromentel 1861 stony coral Heliocoenia pakongensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral Heliocoenia aff. etalloni Koby 1881 stony coral Heliocoenia bendukidzeae Babayev 1973 stony coral Stylina parcicosta Koby 1905 stony coral Stylina bangoinensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral "Stylina cf. subramosa" = Stylina inflata Fromentel 1856 stony coral "Cryptocoenia tabulata" = Stylina tabulata Koby 1881 stony coral Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Scleractinia - Actinastreidae	Stephanastrea zangbeiensis n. sp., "Actinastrea ramulifera" = Stephanastrea ramulifera Stephanastrea zangbeiensis n. sp. Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral "Actinastrea ramulifera" = Stephanastrea ramulifera Etallon 1864 stony coral
Scleractinia - Kobyastraeidae	Kobyastraea tenuis Kobyastraea tenuis Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae	Epistreptophyllum giganteum, Epistreptophyllum cf. densum Epistreptophyllum giganteum Roniewicz 1976 stony coral Epistreptophyllum cf. densum Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae	Axosmilia cf. sessilis Axosmilia cf. sessilis Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
Scleractinia - Latomeandridae	Thamnoseris cf. blauensis, Latiastraea foulassensis, "Latiastraea pakongensis n. sp." = Latiastrea pakongensis Thamnoseris cf. blauensis Koby 1887 stony coral Latiastraea foulassensis Beauvais 1964 stony coral "Latiastraea pakongensis n. sp." = Latiastrea pakongensis Liao and Xia 1985 stony coral