Where: Xinjiang, China (35.9° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 60.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shaksgam Formation, Roadian to Roadian (272.5 - 265.0 Ma)

• No stratigraphic details given in primary reference, but most likely from member 1 of the Shaksgam Formation (sparse brachiopods are also present higher in the formation). Presence of fusulinids Monodiexodina, Minojapanella wutuensis, Parafusulina japonica, and Boultonia suggests an early Guadalupian age for those units.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Desio in 1929

• 1929 Italian expedition to the Karakorum

Primary reference: N. Fantini Sestini. 1965. Permian fossils of the Shaksgam Valley. Italian Expeditions to the Karakorum (K2) and Hindu Kush. IV - Paleontology-Zoology-Botany 149-218 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123274: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2012

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