Tsagan Temete, unit 9, Burin-Khan-Obo Mountain Area (Permian of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (47.1° N, 110.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.7° N, 122.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Terrakea arguta brachiopod zone, Lower Member (Uldza Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• 450 m thick, unit 9.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

• Interbedded sandstone, grit, siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: I. N. Manankov. 1992. Novye Produktidy iz Verkhnepermskikh otlozhenii severo-vostochnoi Mongolii. Novye Taksony Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Rossiisko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:70-75 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121397: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea arguta n. sp. Manankov 1992