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

Where: Xinjiang, China (38.0° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 51.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Heshilafu Formation), Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• Gigantoproductus edelburgensis Zone (Sg Zone)

• 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 50256: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia glabra Sowerby 1821
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae