Where: Xinjiang, China (40.0° N, 76.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 69.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baliqliq Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Tarimathyris postambigua (=Kt) brachiopod zone, sample 954

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen and G. R. Shi. 2006. Artinskian-Kungurian (Early Permian) brachiopod faunas from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China, Part 1: Biostratigraphy and systematics of Productida. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 274(3-6):113-177 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62810: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.07.2006

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