Where: Xinjiang, China (46.8° N, 86.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 61.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Base of unit 3. Lower Tournaisian, yielding the marker conodont Siphonodella cooperi.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, green limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum of Peking University

Primary reference: P. Zong, R. T. Becker, and X. P. Ma. 2015. Upper Devonian (Famennian) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) ammonoids from western Junggar, Xinjiang, northwestern China - stratigraphy, taxonomy and palaeobiogeography. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 95:159-202 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172430: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.08.2015

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