Southwestern Tarim Basin, Aitegou Section, Heshilafu Formation, Vv Zone (Carboniferous to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (38.0° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 44.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Heshilafu Formation), Arundian to Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Vitiliproductus groberi Zone (Vv Zone), middle 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 50254: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Sentosiidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia glabra Sowerby 1821
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Unispirifer sp., "Brachythyris cf. suborbicularis" = Spirifer suborbicularis
"Brachythyris cf. suborbicularis" = Spirifer suborbicularis Hall 1858