Where: Xinjiang, China (38.0° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 45.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Heshilafu Formation), Chadian to Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Rugosochonetes hardrensis Zone (Vr Zone), Lower Visean.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

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 50252: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005

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