Where: Hunan, China (25.6° N, 112.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 101.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Douling Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by F.Y. Meng in the 1980s

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen and Y. C. Zhang. 2008. Earliest Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods in southern Hunan, south China: implications for the pre-Lopingian crisis and onset of Lopingian recovery/radiation. Journal of Paleontology 82(5):924-937 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117500: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2011, edited by Lindy Edwards

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