Jushui base, Sichuan, China (Triassic of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (31.6° N, 104.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.0° N, 83.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Hanwang Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone

• Oolite bank facies

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: faunal list only

Primary reference: X. Wu. 1989. Carnian (Upper Triassic) sponge mounds of the northwestern Sichuan Basin, China: Stratigraphy, facies and paleoecology. Facies 21:171-188 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25407: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 11.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Solenopora cf. nigra, Parachaetetes sp.
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia clathrata
Retiophyllia clathrata Emmrich 1853 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarophyllia decora
Margarophyllia decora Wu 1975 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Astraeomorpha crassiseptata
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Stylophyllopsis sp.
Stylophyllopsis sp. Frech 1890 stony coral
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
? Macroporella sp.