ammonites
Qingguo AH-334, Bed 11, Zhongba (Permian of China)

Where: Xizang, China (29.8° N, 84.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.1° S, 62.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, silty slate and lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, muddy limestone

• 141.42 meters thick
• Greenish silty, micaeous slate, with abundant brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, and crinoid stems. The unit is capped by a 10-15 cm bed of bioclastic limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Geological Survey Team of Tibet in 1980

Primary reference: G. R. Shi, S. Shen, and L. Zhan. 2003. A Guadalupian-Lopingian (Middle to Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Juripu Formation in the Yarlung-Zangbo suture zone, southern Tibet, China. Journal of Paleontology 77(6):1053-1068 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52246: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 01.08.2005