Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.3° N, 119.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 122.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daohugou Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)

• The age of the Daohugou fauna has been controversial. Liu et al. (2012) obtained U-Pb shrimp ages of 160.5 and 161.0 Myr on ash beds associated with fossils of the Daohugou fauna, suggesting a Callovian-Oxfordian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, tuffaceous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by J.F. Zhang in 2010; reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical

• All type materials are housed at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology

Primary reference: J. F. Zhang. 2011. Two new species of Palaeoarthroteles Kovalev and Mostovski (Diptera, Rhagionidae) from the Callovian-Oxfordian (Jurassic) Daohugou biota of China. Geobios 44:635-639 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.12.2011

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