Where: Xizang, China (28.7° N, 85.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 63.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Selong Group, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• 2.6 m thick; Chonetella nasuta assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.Z. Shen in 1996,1998

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen, N. W. Archbold, G. R. Shi and Z. Q. Chen. 2000. Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida. Geobios 33(6):725-752 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73600: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.06.2007, edited by Bethany Allen

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