ammonites
Yanjiao, Meichang, Shuitang, Ziyun (Permian to of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.5° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 97.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• "Upper Carboniferous" (based on old definition of C-P boundary in China, which included Asselian and Sakmarian in Carboniferous).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. D. Wang. 1978. Anthozoa. Paleontological Atlas of Southwest China, Guizhou Volume 2:106-189 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95971: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2010

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