Qingguo AH-333, Bed 7, Zhongba (Permian to of China)

Where: Xizang, China (29.8° N, 84.1° E: paleocoordinates 54.1° S, 61.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Juripu Formation, Capitanian to Capitanian (264.3 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• 20 meters thick
• grey thin-bedded bioclastic limestone with abundant brachiopods, gastropods, and bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collected by Geological Survey Team of Tibet in 1980

Primary reference: G. R. Shi, S. Shen, and L. Zhan. 2003. A Guadalupian-Lopingian (Middle to Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Juripu Formation in the Yarlung-Zangbo suture zone, southern Tibet, China. Journal of Paleontology 77(6):1053-1068 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117771: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Costiferina indica
Costiferina indica Waagen 1884
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Taeniothaerus zhongbaensis n. sp.
Taeniothaerus zhongbaensis n. sp. Shi et al. 2003
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Elythidae indet.
Elythidae indet. Fredericks 1924
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer (Quadrospira) tibetensis
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
"Spiriferella qubuensis" = Arcullina qubuensis
"Spiriferella qubuensis" = Arcullina qubuensis Zhang 1976