ammonites
KM86, Staghar section, Shaksgam Valley (Permian of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (35.8° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 60.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shaksgam Formation, Roadian (272.5 - 268.0 Ma)

• Monodiexodina and Minojapanella wutuensis fusulinid fauna.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. W. Flügel. 1989. Rugosa aus dem Perm des N-Karakorum und der Aghil-Kette. Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 17:101-117 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108488: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2011

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