PBDB Collection

Karatau (PIN collection SAGU) (Jurassic to of Kazakhstan)

Where: Chimkent, Kazakhstan (42.3° N, 69.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 73.5° 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

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 119620: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 30.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

• All of Rohdendorf's new Karatau species from Osnovy Paleontologii are placed here based on information for Archizelmira kazachstanica in Grimaldi et al. 2003.

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Insecta
Diptera - Pleciofungivoridae	Eohesperinus weberi n. sp.⁶ Eohesperinus weberi n. sp.⁶ Rohdendorf 1964 fly SAGU 69
Diptera - Archizelmiridae	Archizelmira kazachstanica n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Archizelmira kazachstanica n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Rohdendorf 1962 fungus gnat PIN SAGU-17
Diptera - Mesosciophilidae	Mesosciophila venosa n. gen. n. sp. Mesosciophila venosa n. gen. n. sp. Rohdendorf 1946 fly SAGU 26
Coleoptera - Nemonychidae	Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) similis², Eobelus longipes², "Distenorrhinus (Distenorrhinus) rotundicollis" = Distenorrhinus (Distenorrhinus) pallidirostris³ Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) similis² Arnoldi 1977 pine flower snout beetle SAGU 93 Eobelus longipes² Arnoldi 1977 pine flower snout beetle SAGU 116 "Distenorrhinus (Distenorrhinus) rotundicollis" = Distenorrhinus (Distenorrhinus) pallidirostris³ Gratshev and Zherikhin 1995 pine flower snout beetle SAGU/67
Coleoptera - Caridae	Nanophydes ovatus⁴ Nanophydes ovatus⁴ Arnoldi 1977 weevil SAGU 96
Hemiptera - Liadopsyllidae	Liadopsylla turkestanica n. sp.¹ Liadopsylla turkestanica n. sp.¹ Becker-Migdisova 1949 jumping plant louse SAGU 71
Hemiptera -	Mesotubilustrium asiaticum n. gen. n. sp.¹ Mesotubilustrium asiaticum n. gen. n. sp.¹ Becker-Migdisova 1949 true bug SAGU 92
Hemiptera - Corixidae	Karataviella brachyptera¹ Karataviella brachyptera¹ Becker-Migdisova 1949 water boatman SAGU 57

¹Becker-Migdisova 1949; ²Gratshev and Legalov 2014; ³Gratshev and Zherikhin 1995; ⁴Legalov 2015; ⁵Rohdendorf 1962; ⁶Rohdendorf 1964