Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2511) (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 A.N. Turutanova-Ketova in 1932; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: O. M. Martynova. 1947. Dve novykh verblyudki (Raphidioptera) iz Yurskikh slantsev Kara-Tau. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 56(6):635-637 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122558: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Mesoraphidia pterostigmalis n. sp. Martynova 1947 snakefly
PIN 2511/89
 Diptera - Eostratiomyiidae
Eostratiomyia avia n. gen. n. sp.
Eostratiomyia avia n. gen. n. sp. Rohdendorf 1964 fly
PIN 2511/95(91)