Northern declivities of Manrak, at the river Bokol (PIN collection 2113) (Oligocene of Kazakhstan)

Where: Saisan, Kazakhstan (47.4° N, 84.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 82.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

• rock is mostly clayish & soft

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by M. Nenberg in 1927

Primary reference: A. V. Martynov. 1929. Ob iskopayemykh nasekomykh tretichnykh otlozheniy Ashutasa, Zaisanskogo uyezda. Trudy Geologicheskogo Muzeya, Akademii Nauk SSSR 5:173-216 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120122: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 07.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859 reed leaf beetle
PIN 2113/36
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Calathus sp. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle
PIN 2113/37