Mingyuexia, Qixia Fm, Chaotian, Guangyuan County (Permian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.6° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 89.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Qixia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. X. Tong. 1978. Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda. Palaeontological Atlas of Southwest China - Sichuan Volume 2:210-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103469: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Orthothetina iljinae Sokolskaja 1965