Level BH-1, Section B - Germig, Tibet (Triassic of China)
Where: China (28.7° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 47.7° E)
When: Germig Formation, Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma)
• Upper Rhaetian, but below level B1 of ammonites
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained, gray, calcareous sandstone and lithified siltstone
• The diverse epifauna, in combination with their common association with crinoids and a high degree of encrustation and bioerosion on the shells, suggest a shallow, warm, and low turbidity marine environment of normal salinity.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Yin and C. A. McRoberts. 2006. Latest Triassic–earliest Jurassic bivalves of the Germig formation from Lanongla (Tibet, China). Journal of Paleontology 80(1):104-120 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75198: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 26.09.2007