Where: Guangxi, China (22.3° N, 107.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed 8 of unit 3 of the Dalong Formation, ca. 0.2 m thick, Late Changhsingian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Micropaleontology Laboratory, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, with prefix DP.

Primary reference: W. He, S.-Z. Shen, Q. Feng and S. Gu. 2005. A late Changhsingian (Late Permian) deepwater brachiopod fauna from the Talung Formation at the Dongpan Section, Southern Guangxi, South China. Journal of Paleontology 79(5):927-938 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95337: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.04.2010, edited by Leigh Fall, Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

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