Aitegou section, Damusi area, Bed 9 (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (37.5° N, 76.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 46.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Member (Kelitag Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

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 116470: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Konickoproa sp., Septatournyella spp., Brunsila sp.
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
Palaeospiroplectammina sp.
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Planoendothyra sp., Endothyra sp.
Calcisphaera
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Calcisphaera sp.
Calcisphaera sp. Williamson 1880
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
"Chuiella major" = Martiniella major, Chuiella aitegouensis
"Chuiella major" = Martiniella major Chu et al. 1988
Chuiella aitegouensis Chen and Shi 1999