Where: Leninabad, Tajikistan (40.3° N, 69.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.5° N, 71.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rotliegendes (283.5 - 259.5 Ma)

• The beds are assumed to be coeval with the Lower Rotliegende of central Europe, although correlations are still largely uncertain (Laurin 1996b; Ivakhnenko 1981; Berman et al. 1997).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kalakanaty geological group, PIN in 1961, 1964, 1975; reposited in the PIN

• The type locality (see below) was discovered by a team of geologists of the Kalakanaty geological group in 1961. In 1964, an expedition from the Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences led by Tatarinov found 124 specimens. A second expedition to the type locality, led by Kalandadze in 1975, resulted in the collection of about 850 additional speci- mens of assorted size from a surface of about six square metres.

Primary reference: J. Klembara and M. Ruta. 2005. The seymouriamorph tetrapod Ariekanerpeton sigalovi from the Lower Permian of Tadzhikistan. Part I: Cranial anatomy and ontogeny. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 96(1):43-70 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181134: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 23.08.2016

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