Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 35) (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

Primary reference: J. M. Carpenter and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1990. Mesozoic Vespidae. Psyche 97(1-2):1-20 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113359: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2011, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattaria - Caloblattinidae
Nuurcala popovi10 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
PIN 3559/157, 159, 162, 165, 166, 167, 171, 177, 181, 189, 194, 209, 210, 227, 250, 161, 164
Caloblattina "sp. 2"10 Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
PIN 3559/159 (35/3-8)
 Mantodea -
Cretophotina mongolica10 Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 mantis
PIN 3559/184, 235, 242, 183
 Dicondylia -
Blattodea indet.10 Latreille 1810 cockroach
 Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
"Piniblattella altera" = Archimesoblatta altera8 Vršanský 1997 cockroach
PIN 3559/158, 169, 18, 186, 187, 179, 188, 196, 213, 225, 228, 236; 203, 248 in Vrsansky, 2003
Praeblattella dichotoma10 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
PIN 3559/7985
Praeblattella ponomarenkoi10 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
 Blattodea - Blattulidae
Elisama parallela10 Vršanský 2003 cockroach
PIN 3559/185
Elisama tsaganica10 Vršanský 1999 cockroach
PIN 3559/127, 172, 173, 174, 185, 191, 232, 182, 201
 Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Vitisma diffusa n. sp.10 Vršanský 2003 winged insect
PIN 3559/195, 246
Petropterix mirabilis9 Vršanský 2003 winged insect
PIN 3559/2224
 Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae
"Trematothorax gobiensis n. sp." = Prosyntexis gobiensis7, Thoracotrema nebulosum n. sp.7
"Trematothorax gobiensis n. sp." = Prosyntexis gobiensis7 Rasnitsyn 1993 stem sawfly
PIN 3559/645
Thoracotrema nebulosum n. sp.7 Rasnitsyn 1993 stem sawfly
PIN 3559/671
 Hymenoptera - Evaniidae
Praevania sculpturata n. gen. n. sp.6
Praevania sculpturata n. gen. n. sp.6 Rasnitsyn 1991 ensign wasp
PIN 3559/673
 Hymenoptera - Vespidae
Priorvespa directa n. sp. Carpenter and Rasnitsyn 1990 wasp
PIN 3559/685
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Tanychora loki n. sp.2 Kopylov 2010 ichneumon wasp
PIN 3559/666
 Coleoptera -
Notocupes elegans4 Ponomarenko 1994 beetle
PIN 3559/1601, 1602, 1603
Notocupes mongolicus4 Ponomarenko 1994 beetle
PIN 3559/1615, 1616
"Notocupes dundulaensis" = Brachilatus dundulaensis4 Ponomarenko 1994 beetle
PIN 3559/1607, 1610, 1599
 Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Anaglyphites mongolicus n. sp.5 Ponomarenko 1997 reticulated beetle
PIN 3559/1608
 Coleoptera - Ommatidae
"Tetraphalerus bontsaganensis" = Allophalerus bontsaganensis5, "Tetraphalerus longicollis" = Omma longicolle5, Brochocoleus planus4, Brochocoleus alatus4, Brochocoleus cossyphus4
"Tetraphalerus bontsaganensis" = Allophalerus bontsaganensis5 Ponomarenko 1997 beetle
PIN 3559/1600
"Tetraphalerus longicollis" = Omma longicolle5 Ponomarenko 1997 beetle
PIN 3559/1611, 1620
Brochocoleus planus4 Ponomarenko 1994 beetle
PIN 3559/1612, 1595, 1598
Brochocoleus alatus4 Ponomarenko 1994 beetle
PIN 3559/1621
Brochocoleus cossyphus4 Ponomarenko 1994 beetle
PIN 3559/1613, 1605
 Diptera - Rhagionemestriidae
Iberomosca ponomarenkoi n. sp.3 Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs 2000 fly
PIN 3559/3786
 Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Ipsaneusidalys shato1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3671, 3704, 3705, 3792, 3798, 8826
Drepanorzeckia extrunculipennis1 Blagoderov 1997 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3710
Drepanorzeckia plana1 Blagoderov 1997 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3675
Palaecomoptera curvicosta n. sp.1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3751, 3725, 3765, 8831
Syntemna sp.1 Winnertz 1863 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3559, 3572, 3692, 3723, 3739
Syntemna tele1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3723, 3729, 3730, 3776, 3794
Syntemna zhuzhan1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3651, 3680, 3718, 3794, 3797
Baisodicrana mongolica1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3686
Polylepta (Lyptolape) sp.1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
poorly preserved specimens
Polylepta (Lyptolape) lyptolape n. sp.1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3559/3650, 3681, 3689, 3677, 3712