Fengshan: Tithonian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stegocephali
- Temnospondyli
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Sinerpeton fengshanensis n. gen., n. sp.
Gao and Shubin 2001
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salamander |
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Laccotriton subsolanus n. gen., n. sp.
Gao et al. 1998
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salamander |
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Hebei |
| Coordinates: | 41.2° North, 117.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.4° North, 119.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 150.8 - 145.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: fossil beds are "probably mid-Tithonian or slightly younger, on the basis of radiometric dating and biostratigraphy. The underlying Zhangjiakou Formation yields an 40Ar/39Ar date of 151 million years BP" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous lithified "shale" |
| Lithology description: "tuffaceous shales" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression,soft parts |
| Degree of concentration: | -single event |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
| Taphonomy comments: "catastrophic mass mortality during a pyroclastic eruption" | |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: GMV collection | |
| Taxonomic list comments: an "insect assemblage" and "conchostracans" are also present | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 92078 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-28 16:50:16 | Last modified: | 2009-10-28 18:50:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-28 16:50:16 |
Reference information
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