Where: Xinjiang, China (40.3° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 61.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bijintawu Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Purdonella artuxensis Zone (Late Moscovian). This unit has a thickness of approx. 100m.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Paleontological data after Zhan and Wu 1987.

Primary reference: Z.-Q. Chen. 2004. Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography. Geological Journal 39:431-458 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50245: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005

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