Where: Chongqing, China (29.5° N, 106.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 93.9° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Feixianguan Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• 0.19 m thick. Post-extinction Changhsingian (PTB is in bed 36 of Zhongliang Hill sections - S.-Z. Shen, pers. comm.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, pyritic, gray marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Z. Shen and X. L. He. 1991. Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing. Journal of Stratigraphy 15(3):189-196 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94989: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.04.2010

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