Chongbo district, Qamdo County (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Xizang, China (31.2° N, 97.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 102.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aoqu Group, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Y. G. Jin, Y. Wang, D. L. Sun and Q. Shi. 1985. Late Paleozoic and Triassic brachiopods from the east of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Western Sichuan and Eastern Xizang 182-249 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132561: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae