Late triassic-jurassic bivalves from volcanic sediments of the lhasa block, Tibet

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 555-577

  Yin, Jiarun ^a   Grant Mackie, J A ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aalenian; Bajocian; Bathonian; Benthic assemblages; Bivalves; Eastern Tethys; Gervillaria tibetica (sp. nov.); Hettangian; Isocyprina lhasaensis (sp. nov.); Jurassicorbula fuersichi (sp. nov.); Lhasa block; Lhasanella lhasaensis (gen. et sp. nov.); New taxonomic names; Rhaetian; Toarcian; Trigonodus xiabolangensis (sp. nov.); Volcanism; Yeba Formation

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; FOSSIL; GONDWANA; JURASSIC; TRIASSIC; VOLCANIC ASH;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LHASA; WORLD; XIZANG;

BIVALVIA; PROPEAMUSSIUM; TRIGONODUS;

EID: 27144511660     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2005.9515133     Document Type: Article

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