Aitegou section, Damusi area, Bed 5 (Devonian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (37.5° N, 76.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.6° S, 53.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lower Member (Kelitag Formation), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen and G. R. Shi. 1999. Chuiella gen. nov. (Brachiopoda) and palaeoecology from the Lower Carboniferous of the Kunlun Mountains, NW China. Alcheringa 23:259-275 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116468: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924