Where: Gansu, China (40.1° N, 96.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 92.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhonggou Formation, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• Early-Middle Albian according to Zheng et al. (2021)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by S.W. Wang in 11, 1936; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: S. Chen and C. C. Tan. 1973. A new family of Coleoptera from the Lower Cretaceous of Kansu. Acta Entomologica Sinica 16:169-179 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.02.2013

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