Where: Xinjiang, China (41.0° N, 84.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 78.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Bashibulake Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Member 3 of the Bashibulake Fm, which overlies the Wulagen Fm (upper Middle Eocene) and is overlain by the upper members of the Bashibulake Fm (Late Eocene-Early Oligocene). AGE: Late Eocene. Justification not stated, but presumably through macrofossil and microfossil biostratigraphy. Pollen present. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed within Member 3, within the middle part of the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably X. Lan and J. M. Wei (1980's). REPOSITORY: Probably Nanjing Inst. of Geol. and Pal., Academia Sinica.

Primary reference: X. Lan. 1997. Paleogene bivalve communities in the western Tarim Basin and thei paleoenvironmental implications. Palaeoworld 7:137-157 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77853: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.01.2008

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