Where: Hunan, China (29.6° N, 110.1° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 97.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maokou Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Bed is 15.2 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. X. Zhao and Z. X. Tan. 1984. Lower Permian brachiopods from Sangzhi, Hunan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23(1):20-31 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100083: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2010

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