Where: Xinjiang, China (41.5° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 69.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• No good stratigraphic details given, although brachiopod fauna and presence of "Schwagerina" princeps were used to correlate with the "Schwagerina Limestone" of Russia. Could range to Artinskian or Kungurian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gottfried Merzbacher in 1903

• Presumably collected by Merzbacher during 1902-1903 expedition to Tien Shan.

Primary reference: H. Keidel. 1906. Geologische Untersuchungen im südlichen Tian-Schan nebst Beschreibung einer obercarbonischen Brachiopodenfauna aus dem Kukurtkuk-Tal. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 22:266-384 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119867: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)