Where: Hubei, China (30.0° N, 115.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 96.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qixia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• No details given in Bayan (1874) but Meekella garnieri reported from the Kungurian of south China in other papers.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Francis Garnier

• Collected by the "unfortunate compatriot" M. Francis Garnier during the course of his voyage that ended in "such a regrettable catastrophe." After voyaging down the Yangtze River, Garnier attempted to conquer Tonkin (Vietnam) but stumbled in a stream during one battle and was hacked to death by mercenaries.

Primary reference: F. Bayan. 1874. Sur quelques fossiles paléozoïques de Chine. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Troisième Série 2:409-415 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124338: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.02.2012

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