Where: Kazakhstan (44.4° N, 50.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 48.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tartalinskaya Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• "Upper Dzhelamian", which is likely analogous to the Upper Olenekian, i.e. Spathian (Gavrilova 1995)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by V. A. Gavrilova in 1980

Primary reference: V. A. Gavrilova. 1995. O nekotorykh rannetriasovykh pektinatseiakh predkavkaz’ia i mangyshlaka [On some Early Triassic Pectinacea (Bivalvia) from the Eastern Pre-Caucasus and Mangyshlak]. Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Geological Series 70(5):83-97 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203766: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 24.08.2019

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