Where: Qinghai, China (36.1° N, 94.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 64.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dagangou Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Dagangou and Diasosu Formations; limestone bed near top of the section, just below fault contact with volcanics; Upper Carboniferous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Paleontological collections made on the 1985 Geotraverse.

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and J. Xu. 1988. Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 327:53-105 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68636: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2007

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