Wat Phu Tham Maholan (Carboniferous of Thailand)

Where: Thailand (17.1° N, 101.9° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° S, 103.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Nam Maholan Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified grainstone

• coarse-grained, rather poorly-sorted algal-fusulinacean bioclastic and lithoclastic grainstone with brachiopod and gastropod shell fragments, crinoid and bryozoan fragments

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: K. Ueno, K. Nagai, N. Nakornsri and T. Sugiyama. 1995. Upper Carboniferous foraminifers from Phu Tham Maholan, southeast of Wang Saphung, Changwat Loei, northeast Thailand. Science Reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Section B: Geological Sciences 16:29-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131937: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp.
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Nankinella sp.
Nankinella sp. Lee 1933
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Jigulites cf. magnus, Schagonella implexa, Schagonella sp.
Schagonella sp. Davydov 1980
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyina "sp. A", Bradyina "sp. B"
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina tenuis
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Globivalvulina sp.
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921