Mab Ching (Jurassic of Thailand)

Where: Changwat Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand (8.2° N, 99.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 111.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Jurassic (174.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• a good section exposes alternating grey and brown clays and limestone beds. According to M. Feist (Montpellier), charophytes from that locality (including Porochara sublaevis) suggest a Middle Jurassic age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; brown, gray claystone and limestone

• The whole assemblage is suggestive of a lacustrine environment
• alternating grey and brown clays and limestone beds

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1993, 1994, 1996

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• The Mab Ching locality was discovered by L. Raksaskulwong in 1993. Field work there in 1993, 1994 and 1996 yielded abundant vertebrate remains

•The specimens studied in this paper are housed in the collection of the Geological Survey Division, Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), Bangkok, Thailand.

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, H. Tong, V. Suteethorn and L. Raksaskulwong. 1994. Jurassic vertebrates from the southern peninsula of Thailand and their implications: A preliminary report. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Stratigraphic Correlation of Southeast Asia 253-256 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137735: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 18.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Mesosuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
vertebrae, scutes and teeth of mesosuchian crocodiles
 Testudinata -
Siamochelys peninsularis n. gen. n. sp.
Siamochelys peninsularis n. gen. n. sp. Tong et al. 2002 turtle
Holotype partial skeleton (TF 7635); a shell (TF 7636), and partial shell (TF 7637)
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
Temnospondyl intercentra (TF 3228 and 3229)
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ptychoceratodontidae
"Ferganoceratodus szechuanensis" = Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis
"Ferganoceratodus szechuanensis" = Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis Young 1942 lungfish
toothplate
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
cf. Lepidotes indet. Agassiz 1832 gar
scales of Lepidotes-like actinopterygian fish
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
a spine of a large hybodont shark