Where: Russian Federation (51.7° N, 113.4° E: paleocoordinates 54.8° N, 111.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Argun Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• Correlated with Turga locality and Mongolian sites (also with Yixian Formation) based on presence of Ephemeropsis trisetalis, Lycoptera, Bairdestheria, and based on macroplants and palynomorphs.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Reposited in the PIN
Primary reference: L. V. Arnoldi, V. V. Zherikhin, L. M. Nikritin and A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:1-204 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123220: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Myangadina tetrops11 Shcherbakov 1988 true bug PIN 2385/461-463 (outcrop 325/3-4, 5-7, profile V/18-19 m)
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Antemnacrassa geminata n. sp.5
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Cretoglaphyrus zherikhini n. sp.6, Cretoglaphyrus olenguicus n. sp.6, Cretoglaphyrus leptopterus n. sp.6, Cretoglaphyrus transbaikalicus n. sp.6, Cretoglaphyrus calvescens n. sp.6
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Cretolucanus longus n. gen. n. sp.6, Cretolucanus ordinarius n. sp.6, Cretolucanus sibericus n. sp.6
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"Proteroscarabaeus baissensis" = Lithoscarabaeus baissensis, Prototrox transbaikalicus n. gen. n. sp.4
"Proteroscarabaeus baissensis" = Lithoscarabaeus baissensis Nikritin 1977 scarab beetle PIN 2385/1, 5
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? Acmaeoderimorpha emersa n. sp.1, Cretothyrea optanda n. gen. n. sp.1, Metabuprestium cuneomaculatum n. sp.1
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Zygadenia sinitzae n. sp.8, Zygadenia semen n. sp.8, Zygadenia sibirica n. sp.8, Priacma striata n. sp.8
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"Bestiola communis" = Cretobestiola communis10
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Prosusumania semenica n. gen. n. sp.3
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Arachnida | |
Cretohexura coylei n. gen. n. sp.2
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