Sharin-Gol (PIN collection 4306) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Where: Selenginskij, Mongolia (45.4° N, 109.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 110.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sharin-Gol Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

• coal quarry

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Paleontological group of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition in 1986; reposited in the PIN

• collected by the Paleontological group of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition in 1986 (A. G. Ponomarenko, the head).

Primary reference: V. G. Gratshev and A. A. Legalov. 2009. New taxa of the family Nemonychidae (Coleoptera) from Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Euroasian Entomological Journal 8:411-416 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123425: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.01.2012, edited by Lindy Edwards

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Mantodea -
Cretophotina selenginensis n. sp.3 Vršanský 2002 mantis
PIN 4306/180
 Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae
Baissopsyche pura2 Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001 scorpionfly
PIN 4306/287
 Coleoptera - Nemonychidae
Selengarhynchus ovalis n. gen. n. sp. Gratshev and Legalov 2009 pine flower snout beetle
PIN 4306/1
Selengarhynchoides sharyngolensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Legalov 2010 pine flower snout beetle
PIN 4306/2, 3
 Coleoptera - Lasiosynidae
Crassisyne ampla n. gen. n. sp.4
Crassisyne ampla n. gen. n. sp.4 Yan et al. 2014 beetle
PIN 4306/3, 30, 32