Taoshuyuan (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (43.3° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 78.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aoertu Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• uppermost part of the Qijiagou Formation or lowermost part of the Aoertu Formation, Upper Moscovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

• shallow-water grainstones and packstones that contain a small volcanic component

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Webster, J. A. Waters, Z. T. Liao and C. G. Maples. 2009. New Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) echinoderms from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, western China. Palaeoworld 18:241-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92636: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinitidae indet. Bassler 1938 Sea lily
Platycrinites spp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Sagenocrinida - Dactylocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Stellarocrinidae
Stellarocrinus qijiagouensis n. sp. Webster et al. 2009 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Pirasocrinidae
Metaperimestocrinus aoertuensis n. sp. Webster et al. 2009 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Blothrocrinidae
Blothrocrinidae indet. Moore and Laudon 1943 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Cromyocrinidae
Dicromyocrinus "sp. 1" Jaekel 1918 Sea lily
Dicromyocrinus "sp. 2" Jaekel 1918 Sea lily
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus labrus n. sp. Webster et al. 2009 Sea lily
Blastoidea
 Troosticrinida - Troosticrinidae
Troosticrinidae indet. Bather 1899 blastoid
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae
Archaeocidaris sp. M'Coy 1844 sea urchin