Xingkai (Triassic of China)

Where: Heilongjiang, China (45.7° N, 132.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 61.4° N, 159.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nanshuangyashan Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Ochotica zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, tuffaceous shale

• tuffaceous shale, tuffaceous silty shale, fine tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Yu and Z. Li. 1989. Monotis fauna of China and its palaeobiogeographic significance. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences 3:179-186 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98591: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp.
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp.
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Tosapecten sp.
Tosapecten sp. Kobayashi and Ichikawa 1949 scallop
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Entomonotis) jakutica, Monotis (Entomonotis) baoqingensis, Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica, Monotis (Entomonotis) pachypleura
Monotis (Entomonotis) jakutica Teller 1896 scallop
Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica Keyserling 1848 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Bittnerulidae
? Spiriferinoides sp.
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferinidae indet.
Spiriferinidae indet. Davidson 1884