Shar-Teg, outcrop 424-II/5 (PIN collection 4270) (Jurassic of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (44.1° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 97.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sharteg Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Outcrop 444, bed 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Early syn-rift phase (Graham et al., 2001); extensional stress field from collapse of Mongolia-Okhotsk orogenic belt (Wu, 2013).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Joint Soviet Mongolian Paleontological Expedition in 1989; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. G. Ponomarenko, D. S. Aristov, A. S. Bashkuev, Y. M. Gubin, A. V. Khramov, E. D. Lukashevich, Y. A. Popov, L. N. Pritykina, S. M. Sinitsa, N. D. Sinitshenkova, I. D. Sukatsheva, D. V. Vassilenko, and E. V. Yan. 2014. Upper Jurassic Lagerstätte Shar Teg, southwestern Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 48:1573-1682 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125192: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Permosynidae
Hydrobiites mongolicus
Hydrobiites mongolicus Ponomarenko 2014 beetle
PIN 4270/996