Jiaoga, Markam County (Lower Permian) (Permian to of China)

Where: Xizang, China (29.6° N, 98.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 79.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• "Lower Permian" - most likely Guadalupian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Y. G. Jin, Y. Wang, D. L. Sun and Q. Shi. 1985. Late Paleozoic and Triassic brachiopods from the east of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Western Sichuan and Eastern Xizang 182-249 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110101: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Pygmochonetes taniantawengica n. sp. Jin and Shi 1985