ammonites
Chapsay Mountain II, Darvaz Mountains (Permian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (38.3° N, 70.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 68.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chapsay Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.0 - 254.0 Ma)

• Contains Reichelina

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• Formation composed of sandstone, porphyry, limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. V. Gorjunova. 1975. Permian Bryozoans of the Pamirs. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 148:1-127 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88896: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2009

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