Sainaibalulongshi, Amdo (Jurassic to of China)

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
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Epistromatopora cf. delicata Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 demosponge
Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha asiatica Yabe and Sugiyama
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Etallonia sp." = Etallonasteria
"Etallonia sp." = Etallonasteria Roniewicz 1966 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Actinaraea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Tiaradendron sp. Quenstedt 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral