76Z85, southern Kunlun Mountains (Permian of China)

Where: Xizang, China (35.3° N, 82.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 73.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cisuralian (298.9 - 273.0 Ma)

• Lower Permian but no formation given (could be Guadalupian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: C. Z. Chen. 1982. Some late Palaeozoic and Triassic bivalves from Xizang. Series of the Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Paleontology of Xizang 4:221-224 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150463: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya (Janeia) tibetica n. sp. Chen 1982 Awning Clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Sedgwickia sp. McCoy 1844 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam