Where: Qinghai, China (33.9° N, 91.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 70.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jiapila Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Upper Jiapila Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Yao, R. Zhang, J. Pojeta, J. Sha, and J. Wang. 2007. Late Triassic megalodontids (Bivalvia) from the headwaters of the Yangtze River, Qinghai Province, West China. Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1327-1347 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75985: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2007

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