Where: Xizang, China (29.1° N, 88.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 68.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quxia Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Association with Timorites and presence of Urushtenoidea suggests Capitanian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, gray, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D.L. Sun

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, D. L. Sun, and G. R. Shi. 2003. A biogeographically mixed late Guadalupian (late Middle Permian) brachiopod fauna from an exotic limestone block at Xiukang in Lhaze county, Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 21:1125-1137 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117547: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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