Upper Shuomo Fm (lower), Menbu and Guchuo sections (Jurassic of China)

Where: China (28.1° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 45.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shuomo Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From upper Shuomo Fm, which underlies the Tithonian Guchuochun Fm. THICKNESS: From bed within >500 m thick exposure of Shuomo Fm. AGE: Tithonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of formation, below PBDB# 64828 and above PBDB# 64830.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, concretionary siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Offshore, deeper water, possibly continental slope.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Laminated concretionary siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Collected during 1980-1981; reported by Gou and Li, 1983. REPOSITORY: Beijing Graduate School, Wuhan College of Geology, China.

Primary reference: X. Li and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 1988. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Buchia (Bivalvia) from southern Tibet, and some wider considerations. Alcheringa 12:249-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64829: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Probably not exhaustive, including Buchia and biostratigraphically significant taxa. NOMENCLATURE: Appears to use modern nomenclature, with species-level designations.
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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Partschiceras sp., Haplophylloceras pingue
Partschiceras sp. Fucini 1920 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Hemilytoceras cf. immane" = Lytoceras
"Hemilytoceras cf. immane" = Lytoceras ammonite