Nizhegorodskaya Oblast, borehole 68, depth 277.5-283.2 m (PIN collection 1066) (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (56.2° N, 44.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 45.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Possibly marine, given presence of ammonites in Bathonian-Callovian of Nizhni Novgorod region.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by I. Ya. Pedrovskaya

Collection methods: core

• Coll. I. Ya. Pedrovskaya, Moscow Branch of VNIGRI [All-Union Petroleum Geological Exploration Research Institute]

Primary reference: A. V. Alekseev. 1994. Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from Eurasia. Paleontological Journal 27(1A):9-34 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124304: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Arram Noshirvan on 10.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Ancestrimorpha volgensis n. gen. n. sp.
Ancestrimorpha volgensis n. gen. n. sp. Alekseev 1994 jewel beetle
PIN 1066/1