Locality B58, B58.71, 18 km south of Wenquan army station, Qiangtang Terrane (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Qinghai, China (33.1° N, 91.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 89.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yanshiping Group, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 152.1 Ma)

• Middle Jurassic ?Bathonian/Callovian - Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian; bed 71

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• coastal plain facies with marine incursions and some lacustrine horizons

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Paleontological collections made on the 1985 Geotraverse.

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and J. Xu. 1988. Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 327:53-105 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68575: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam