Where: Yunnan, China (25.1° N, 99.4° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 86.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shazipo Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Polydiexodina Zone (=Neoschwagerina craticulifera Zone) of Early Maokouan in China, based on fusulinids = Wordian (now considered Roadian). Samples derived from basal 20 m of Shazipo Formation, just overlying the Bingma Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. R. Shi and S. Shen. 2001. A biogeographically mixed, Middle Permian brachiopod fauna from the Baoshan Block, western Yunnan, China. Palaeontology 44(2):237-258 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41548: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2004

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