Near Banfu, 76Na4, 21 km north of Road 114, Amdo County (Jurassic of China)

Where: Xizang, China (32.3° N, 91.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 87.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yangshiping Group, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: D. L. Sun. 1981. The Mesozoic brachiopods of Xizang. Palaeontology of Xizang, Book III, The Series of the Scientific Expedition to Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 177-260 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132690: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris amdoensis n. sp. Sun 1981
Holcothyris golmudensis Jin et al. 1979