Where: Gunagxi, China (24.0° N, 106.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° N, 96.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Limestone bed 7 m above base. The text correlates this bed with the Ceratites Sandstone of the Salt Range and the Flemingites bed of Timor, and gives the age as Flemingtian (=Smithian).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: K. K. Chao. 1959. Lower Triassic Ammonoids from Western Kwangsi, China. Palaeontologica Sinica. New Series 9(145):1-33 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44000: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 31.08.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham

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