Where: Xinjiang, China (40.6° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 118.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pterograptus elegans graptolite zone, Saergan Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• lowermost collection in bed 11

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, black, gray, silty mudstone and lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1987; reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Collection made as part of an extensive field investigation of the periphery of the Tarim Basin by geologists of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, and the 05 Project Administration, Bureau of Petroleum Geology of Southwest China.

Primary reference: Z. Zhou, G. Yin, and Z. Zhou. 2014. Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 46:1-142 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188317: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 29.08.2017

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