Where: Turkey (40.8° N, 29.5° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 34.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Level 6 of Assereto; Middle Member of Nodular Limestone formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Assereto in 1969, 1971

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: MPUM (Museo di Paleontologia del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Universtia degli Studi de Milano, Italy)

Primary reference: M. Gaetani. 2016. Brachiopods from the type-section of the Bithynian substage (Anisian, Middle Triassic, northwestern Turkey). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122:61-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179407: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.06.2016

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