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Tuotuohe or Suwa, China
Formation | Tuotuohe or Suwa |
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Age: | 168 - 157 Ma Jurassic |
Interval | Bathonian - Oxfordian |
Number of Collections | 2 |
Number of Occurrences | 2 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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Tanggula Mountains | Golmud City (Ge'ermu Co.), Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China | Tuotuohe or Suwa |
Tanggula Mountains | Amdo Co. (Anduo Co.), Nagchu Prefecture (Naqu Prefecture), Tibet, China | Tuotuohe or Suwa |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Suwa or Matuo | 170 - 157 Ma Jurassic | limestone/sandstone | 2 |
Yanshiping - Matuo | 170 - 165 Ma Middle Jurassic | marl/sandstone, sandstone/marl | 27 |
Yanshiping - Matuo or Tuotuohe | 170 - 166 Ma Middle Jurassic | 4 | |
Yanshiping - Quemuoco | 170 - 168 Ma Middle Jurassic | siliciclastic | 11 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) sp. subgenus | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Parallelodontidae : Grammatodon : Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) | 168.3 - 157.3 Ma Jurassic |
References
Yin J., Fürsich F. T. (1991) Middle and Upper Jurassic bivalves from the Tanggula Mountains, W-China, Beringeria, Würzburger geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 4, 127-192 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!