Where: Xinjiang, China (40.6° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 112.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Climacograptus spiniferus graptolite zone, Yingan Formation, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• one of lower collections in bed 3 [= bed 26 of Zhou et al 2014]

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, black mudstone and lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1987; reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Collection made as part of an extensive field investigation of the periphery of the Tarim Basin by geologists of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, and the 05 Project Administration, Bureau of Petroleum Geology of Southwest China.

Primary reference: Z. Zhou, B. D. Webby, and W. Yuan. 1995. Ordovician trilobites from the Yingan Formation of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, northwestern China. Alcheringa 19(1):47-72 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188414: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 31.08.2017, edited by Pete Wagner

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