Hou Shan, Gamba (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Xizang, China (28.3° N, 88.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° S, 71.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zongshan Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 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 74285: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis johnwellsi1 Frost and Langenheim 1974 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Dictuophyllia conferticostata1 Vaughan 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Cyathoceras ellipticus" = Trochosmilia faujasi
"Cyathoceras ellipticus" = Trochosmilia faujasi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Cyathoceras sp., "Paracyathus kangpaensis" = Trochocyathus mitratus
Cyathoceras sp. Moseley 1881 stony coral
"Paracyathus kangpaensis" = Trochocyathus mitratus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
Cunnolites scutellum2 Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia kangpaensis Wu 1975 stony coral