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

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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