Where: Qasim, Saudi Arabia (20.0° N, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 39.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mindhnab Shales Member (Khuff Formation), Zechstein (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)

• The coniferous element is of typical European, Zechstein composition

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gypsiferous, brown, gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. R. Hill and A. A. El-Khayal. 1983. Late Permian plants including Charophytes from the Khuff Formation of Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of British Museum of Natural History 37:105-112 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11143: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan

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