Where: Xizang, China (31.4° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 87.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Toiba Formation, Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 122.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
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 74252: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia xainzaensis Liao 1982 stony coral | |
"Ellipsocoenia turbinata" = Favia turbinata
"Ellipsocoenia turbinata" = Favia turbinata Fromentel 1857 stony coral | |
Microsmilia oppelli stony coral | |
Donacosmilia silingensis Liao 1982 stony coral | |
Dermosmilia lataxa stony coral | |
Stylina qiebulaensis Liao 1982 stony coral | |
"Cladophyllia qiebulaensis" = Apocladophyllia birleyae
"Cladophyllia qiebulaensis" = Apocladophyllia birleyae Gregory 1899 stony coral | |
Actinastrea pseudominima Koby 1897 stony coral |