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The age and sedimentary environment of the Silurian "lower red beds" (LRBs), which occur widely in South China, have long been controversial because of the scarcity of index fossils. Recently, these beds have been dated by trilobites as Middle–Late Aeronian to Early Telychian in age. Here, we report abundant brachiopods from the LRBs in Wuhan, Middle Yangtze Region, including atrypides (
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