Houtiyn-Hotgor Depression (outcrop 296/14) (Jurassic of Mongolia)

Also known as PIN collection 3688

Where: Dund-Gov’ Aymag, Mongolia (45.6° N, 107.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 110.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ulaan-Ereg Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

• Early syn-rift phase (Graham et al., 2001); extensional stress field from collapse of Mongolia-Okhotsk orogenic belt (Wu, 2013).
• "Paper shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: Y. A. Popov. 1988. Novye Mezozojskie Klory Prebljaki (Corixidae, Shurabellidae). In A. Y. Rozanov (ed.), Novye Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 33:63-71 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117695: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 25.09.2011, edited by Lindy Edwards

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata -
Isophlebioidea indet.2 Nel et al. 1993 dragonfly
PIN 3688/529 (outcrop not specified)
 Odonata - Isophlebiidae
Parawalleria mongolica n. gen. n. sp.2 Nel et al. 2009 dragonfly
PIN 3688/273 (outcrop not specified)
Parawalleria incompleta n. sp.2 Nel et al. 2009 dragonfly
PIN 3688/281, 415 (outcrop not specified)
 Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Mesoraphidia gobiensis n. sp.4 Ponomarenko 1988 snakefly
PIN 3688/1069, 1070, 2219, 2222,1067 (outcrop not specified)
 Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Timarchopsis gobiensis n. sp.3 Ponomarenko 1987 beetle
PIN 3688/1178, 1179
 Blattaria - Caloblattinidae
Solemnia alexandri n. gen. n. sp.5
Solemnia alexandri n. gen. n. sp.5 Vršanský 2008 cockroach
PIN 3688/838, 839, 840, 841
 Hemiptera - Corixidae
Haenbea badamgaravae n. gen. n. sp.
Haenbea badamgaravae n. gen. n. sp. Popov 1988 water boatman
PIN 3688/2014-2118
 Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Proptychopterina mongolica n. sp.1 Kalugina 1988 phantom crane fly
PIN 3688/1657 (outcrop not specified)