Menkadun North JSB87, Nyalam County (Jurassic of China)

Where: Xizang, China (28.8° N, 86.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 46.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Menkadun Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Haplophylloceras strigile, Virgatesphinctites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. G. Jin, D. L. Sun, and J. Y. Rong. 1976. Mesozoic and Cenozoic brachiopods from the Mount Jolmo Lungma region. A Report of the Scientific Expedition in the Mount Jolmo Lungma Region (1966-1968) 2:271-357 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110224: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae