Shiquanhe, Rutog, Upper Jaggang Group (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Xizang, China (33.2° N, 79.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 73.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jaggang Group, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Upper Jaggang

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Löser and W. Liao. 2001. Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 19:661-667 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74284: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastrea whitneyi" = Stelidioseris whitneyi
"Actinastrea whitneyi" = Stelidioseris whitneyi Wells 1932 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Paracyathus kangpaensis" = Trochocyathus mitratus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Lophosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Axosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral