Where: Xizang, China (28.4° N, 86.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 93.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yali Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Age given as Upper Devonian, but Yali Formation is now considered to be Lower Carboniferous. Chen uses the Yali Group, which has perhaps been subdivided since 1980.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 150465: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2013

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