Where: Xinjiang, China (43.3° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 79.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aoertu Formation, Moscovian (314.6 - 306.9 Ma)

• uppermost part of the Qijiagou Formation or lowermost part of the Aoertu Formation, Upper Moscovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Webster, J. A. Waters, Z. T. Liao and C. G. Maples. 2009. New Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) echinoderms from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, western China. Palaeoworld 18:241-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92636: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2009