Where: Malaysia (6.4° N, 99.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 120.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Singa Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Brachiopods are scattered throughout the Sungai Itau sequence, concentrated particularly in the massive siltstone bed SIF5 and other calcareous beds SIF1to SIF4. Most of the brachiopods discussed in this paper came from the 30 cm thick SIF5 spanning more than 80 m along the bedding strike

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Mohd Shafeea Leman. 2003. An Early Permian (Sakmarian) brachiopod fauna from the Sungai Itau quarry and its relationship to other Early Permian brachiopod horizons in Langkawi, Malaysia. Geological Society of Malaysia Bulletin 46:155-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221708: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2021

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