Where: Xinjiang, China (40.6° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 115.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nemograptus gracilis graptolite zone, Saergan Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• one of lower collections in bed 15

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, black, calcareous, carbonaceous mudstone and lithified, black, gray 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188344: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 29.08.2017

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