Hotan-Dong, Jinju City (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (35.2° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jinju Formation (Shindong Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Formerly given a wide age range (often Barremian), but youngest detrital zircon in Jinju Formation is 106 Ma, indicating an age no older than Albian (Lee et al., 2010)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, gray shale

• Initiated by north–south left-lateral regional simple shear as a wrench tectonic system due to highly oblique subduction of the Izanagi Plate (Lee et al., 2010)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Specimens at Kyungnam National Science High School

Primary reference: M. S. Engel, J. D. Lim, K. S. Baek and L. D. Martin. 2002. An earwig from the Lower Cretaceous of Korea (Dermaptera: Forficulina). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75:86-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122588: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Mesoraphidia phantasma n. sp., Mesoraphidia koreensis n. sp.
Mesoraphidia phantasma n. sp. Engel et al. 2006 snakefly
Mesoraphidia koreensis n. sp. Engel et al. 2006 snakefly
 Dermaptera -
cf. Pygidicranoidea indet.
cf. Pygidicranoidea indet. Verhoeff 1902 earwig
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