Where: Xizang, China (32.0° N, 90.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 86.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Motianling Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 150.8 Ma)
• lower part of the upper member of the Motianling
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Dong and M. Wang. 1983. New material of the Upper Jurassic stromatoporoids in the Ando County of north Xizang. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22(4):413-428 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116454: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Epistromatopora cf. delicata Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 demosponge | |
Hydrozoa | |
Spongiomorpha asiatica Yabe and Sugiyama | |
Anthozoa | |
"Etallonia sp." = Etallonasteria
"Etallonia sp." = Etallonasteria Roniewicz 1966 stony coral | |
Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral | |
Actinaraea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Tiaradendron sp. Quenstedt 1857 stony coral | |
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral |