Also known as NT01-04

Where: Vietnam (21.9° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 98.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bac Thuy Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Upper Smithian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: All cephalopod, gastropod, ostracod and conodont specimens are reposited at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba. Bivalves are stored in the Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, and radiolarian specimens are stored at Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei.

Primary reference: T. Komatsu, Y. Shigeta, T. H. Dang, C. T. Dinh, T. Maekawa and G. Tanaka. 2013. Crittendenia (Bivalvia) from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Bac Thuy Formation, An Chau Basin, northern Vietnam. Paleontological Research 17:1-11 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143595: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2013

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