Where: Xizang, China (31.8° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 73.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jiesheng Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• May be correlative of Fenestella Shales elsewhere in the Himalayas, based on presence of Hemiplethorhynchus kashmirensis

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Y. Yang, C. M. Hu, and A. A. Xiong. 1990. Carboniferous and Permian brachiopods of the Ngari area. Palaeontology of Ngari, Tibet 80-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121165: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2011

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