ammonites
Jinlu, sample 98060616 (Triassic of China)

Where: Xizang, China (29.2° N, 91.6° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 69.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Pseudostylosphaera nazarovi assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified claystone

• exotic block of alternating beds of chert and claystone enclosed in a melange matrix composed of highly cleavaged mudstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: Y. J. Wang, Q. Yang, A. Matsuoka, K. Kobayashi, T. Nagahashi and Q. G. Zeng. 2002. Triassic radiolarians from the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone in the Jinglu area, Zetang County, southern Tibet. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 19(3):215-227 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96055: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.05.2010