Where: Pakistan (36.8° N, 73.6° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 65.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gircha Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• 2 m thick bioclastic siltstone cropping out 133 m above the base of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M. Gaetani in 1999

Primary reference: L. Angiolini, H. Brunton, and M. Gaetani. 2005. Early Permian (Asselian) brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan) and their paleobiogeographical significance. Palaeontology 48(1):69-86 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123827: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2012

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