Where: Xizang, China (32.4° N, 91.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 87.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhamunaqu Formation, Early/Lower Jurassic to Early/Lower Jurassic (201.6 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Paleontological collections made on the 1985 Geotraverse.

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and J. Xu. 1988. Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 327:53-105 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61425: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 10.06.2006