Where: Xizang, China (29.1° N, 88.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 67.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quxia Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Fossils come from a Permian exotic block within undifferentiated Triassic rocks. It is one of a group of isolated blocks in the so-called Zhongbei melange of the North Yarlungzangbo melange subbelt (Wang et al, 1996).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, G. R. Shi, and N. W. Archbold. 2003. A Wuchiapingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from an exotic block in the Indus-Tsangpo Suture Zone, southern Tibet, and its palaeobiogeographical and tectonic implications. Palaeontology 46(2):225-256 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24590: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 11.08.2002

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