Where: Hebei, China (37.5° N, 114.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 79.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Houkou Member (Taiyuan Formation), Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• "Houkou limestone, Taiyuan Formation, upper Carboniferous" (Fang et al. 2009)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Z. J. Fang, J. H. Chen, C. Z. Chen, J. G. Sha, X. Lan and S. Z. Wen. 2009. Supraspecific taxa of the Bivalvia first named, described, and published in China (1927-2007). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, New Series 17:1-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200833: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 21.04.2019

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