Shichang, Shawan County (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (44.0° N, 85.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 102.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badaowan Formation, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified sandstone

• Junggar basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H. C. Zhang. 1997. A new genus of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lower-Middle Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 14:71-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103477: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Permosynidae
"Ovivagina propinqua n. sp." = Artematopodites propinquus, "Ovivagina prolixa n. sp." = Artematopodites prolixus
"Ovivagina propinqua n. sp." = Artematopodites propinquus Zhang 1997 beetle
"Ovivagina prolixa n. sp." = Artematopodites prolixus Zhang 1997 beetle