Tushilga locality (PIN Collection 4024) (Jurassic of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (44.8° N, 110.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 115.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Khamarkhoburinskaya Formation, Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

• Middle Molasse Basin formed from foreland thrusting during closure of Mongol-Okhotsk sea (Wu, 2013).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1987. New Mesozoic Water Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) From Asia. Paleontological Journal 21(2):79-92 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123958: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 03.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Ephemerida - Mesonetidae
Mesoneta tushilgae n. sp.2
Mesoneta tushilgae n. sp.2 Sinitshenkova 1989 mayfly
PIN 4024/78,92-96,98,99
 Plecoptera - Platyperlidae
Platyperla admissa n. sp.1
Platyperla admissa n. sp.1 Sinitshenkova 1987 stonefly
PIN 4024/56, 55, 57, 69
 Plecoptera - Taeniopterygidae
Mesotaeniopteryx turgida n. sp.1
Mesotaeniopteryx turgida n. sp.1 Sinitshenkova 1987 winter stonefly
PIN 4024/58
 Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Timarchopsis sainshandensis n. sp.
Timarchopsis sainshandensis n. sp. Ponomarenko 1987 beetle
PIN 4024/47
1Sinitshenkova 1987; 2Sinitshenkova 1989