Where: Xinjiang, China (40.8° N, 79.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 70.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kankarin Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Early Artinskian, upper Kankarin Formation, Hystriculina sinica (=Ah) brachiopod zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z.Q. Chen and G. R. Shi. 2002. Late Carboniferous to Early Permian brachiopod faunas from the Bachu and Kalpin areas, Tarim basin, NW China. Alcheringa 25:293-326 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62709: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.07.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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