Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2335) (Jurassic to of Kazakhstan)

Where: Chimkent, Kazakhstan (42.9° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 73.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Karabastau Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified siltstone

• "dark shales" Grimaldi & Engel, 2005

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.I. Turutanova-Ketova; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1946. Evolyutsiya kryla i filogenez dlinnousykh dvukrylykh Oligoneura (Diptera, Nematocera). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 13:1-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112846: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2011, edited by Lindy Edwards and Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Pleciofungivoridae
Fungivorites indistinctus n. sp. Rohdendorf 1946 fungus gnat
PIN 2335/31
 Diptera - Antefungivoridae
Antiquamedia tenuipes n. gen. n. sp.6
Antiquamedia tenuipes n. gen. n. sp.6 Rohdendorf 1938 fly
PIN 2335/75
 Coleoptera - Hybosoridae
Protohybosorus grandissimus n. sp.4 Nikolajev 2010 scavenger scarab beetle
PIN 2335/25
 Coleoptera - Nemonychidae
"Archaeorrhynchus paradoxopus n. sp." = Archaeorrhynchoides paradoxopus1
"Archaeorrhynchus paradoxopus n. sp." = Archaeorrhynchoides paradoxopus1 Arnoldi 1977 pine flower snout beetle
PIN 2335/42 (Galkino)
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Lithocoelus karatavicus3 Dolin 1975 click beetle
PIN 2335/82
 Coleoptera - Ommatidae
"Ommomima pilosa n. gen. n. sp." = Omma pilosum5
"Ommomima pilosa n. gen. n. sp." = Omma pilosum5 Ponomarenko 1964 beetle
PIN 2335/14(35)
 Hemiptera - Fulgoridiidae
Fulgoridium sp.2 Handlirsch 1906 planthopper
PIN 2335/57
 Hemiptera - Tettigarctidae
Turutanovia karatavica n. gen. n. sp.2
Turutanovia karatavica n. gen. n. sp.2 Becker-Migdisova 1949 hairy cicada
PIN 2335/25
 Hemiptera - Protopsyllidiidae
Poljanka "sp. 1"7 Klimaszewski 1995 true bug
PIN 2335/84