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: I. D. Sukacheva. 1992. Novye iskopaemye predstaviteli otryada rucheynikov (Phryganeida) iz Mongolii. Novye Taksony Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Rossiisko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:111-117 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121711: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2011, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Prospeolepta parallelimedia n. sp.1
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Thoracotrema mongolicum n. sp.2
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Multimodus parcus n. sp.
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Petropterix mirabilis n. sp.3
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