Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 167) (Jurassic to of Kazakhstan)

Where: Chimkent, Kazakhstan (42.9° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 73.7° 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

Collected by B. Rohdendorf in 1937; 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 122331: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Mesosciophilidae
Mesosciophilodes similis n. sp.4 Rohdendorf 1964 fly
PIN 167/1
 Diptera - Antefungivoridae
Lycoriomimodes sp. Rohdendorf 1946 fly
PIN 167/12
 Diptera - Pleciofungivoridae
"Polyneurisca atavina n. gen. n. sp." = Pleciofungivora atavina, Pleciofungivorella binerva n. gen. n. sp., Pleciofungivorella brevisubcosta n. sp.4, Pleciofungivorella proxima n. sp.4
"Polyneurisca atavina n. gen. n. sp." = Pleciofungivora atavina Rohdendorf 1946 fly
PIN 167/340
Pleciofungivorella binerva n. gen. n. sp. Rohdendorf 1946 fly
PIN 167/22
Pleciofungivorella brevisubcosta n. sp.4 Rohdendorf 1964 fly
PIN 167/8
Pleciofungivorella proxima n. sp.4 Rohdendorf 1964 fly
PIN 167/7
 Diptera - Chaoboridae
Dixamima villosa n. gen. n. sp.3
Dixamima villosa n. gen. n. sp.3 Rohdendorf 1951 phantom midge
PIN 167/88, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337
 Hemiptera - Corixidae
"Karataviella brachyptera n. gen. n. sp." = Karataviella brachyptera1, "Karataviella brachynota" = Karataviella brachyptera1
"Karataviella brachyptera n. gen. n. sp." = Karataviella brachyptera1 Becker-Migdisova 1949 water boatman
PIN 167/46, 30, 31, 119; also 32, 80 in Popov 1962
"Karataviella brachynota" = Karataviella brachyptera1 Becker-Migdisova 1949 water boatman
PIN 167/34
 Trichoptera - Dysoneuridae
Dysoneura trifurcata n. gen. n. sp.5
Dysoneura trifurcata n. gen. n. sp.5 Sukacheva 1968 caddisfly
PIN 167/316
 Coleoptera -
Notocupes picturatus2 Ponomarenko 1964 beetle
PIN 167/191