Locality B11, B11.9, east of Chisan Ka hot springs, Lhasa Block (Permian to of China)

Where: Xizang, China (30.0° N, 90.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 52.2° S, 81.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Urulung Formation, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 272.3 Ma)

• ?Urulung Formation, Lower Permian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, tuffaceous, calcareous sandstone

• interpreted as distal shoreface sand
• tuffaceous quartz sand, slightly calcareous within cross-bedded sand unit

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 61384: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Fenestellida indet.
indet. fenestellid
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"? Chaoiella latisinuata" = Bruntonella latisinuata
"? Chaoiella latisinuata" = Bruntonella latisinuata Liao 1979
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
? Retimarginifera sp. Waterhouse 1970
listed as ?Rectimarginifera sp.