Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 74) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (45.5° N, 99.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 99.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Khurilt Member (Dzun-Bain Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Possibly late Neocomian (Barremian)-early Aptian but typically treated as Aptian by paleoentomologists.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: D. S. Kopylov. 2009. A new subfamily of Ichneumonids from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia and Mongolia (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Paleontological Journal 43(1):83-93 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113358: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Mantodea -
Cretophotina mongolica1 Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 mantis
PIN 3559/8004
 Blattodea - Blattulidae
Elisama parallela n. sp.1 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
PIN 3559/8002
 Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Praeblattella ponomarenkoi1 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
PIN 3559/8003
Tarakanula shcherbakovi1 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
PIN 3559/433
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Dischysma ramulata n. sp. Kopylov 2009 ichneumon wasp
PIN 3559/10155
 Coleoptera - Lasiosynidae
Lasiosyne cataphracta n. sp.2 Yan 2012 beetle
PIN 3559/6384