Ust-Baley Locality (PIN collection 515) (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Irkutsk, Russian Federation (54.2° N, 100.3° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° N, 99.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ust' -Baleyskaya Member (Cheremkhovskaya Formation), Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithology not reported

• The Ust'-Baley palaeocenosis is a well-described Mesozoic "hypotrophic" lake (Zherikhin and Kalugina 1985), of type "B" according to Sinitshenkova and Zherikhin (1996). It was a small, shallow, permanent lake in a large river valley (but completely isolated from the river), with a low primary production and high oxygen concentration.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G.G. Martinson in 1958; reposited in the PIN

• Collector interpreted from parallel lists

Primary reference: N. D. Sinitshenkova. 1985. Jurskie podenki (Ephemerida-Ephemeroptera) yuzhnoy Sibiri i zapadnoy Mongolii. In A. P. Rasnitsyn (ed.), Jurskie Nasekomye Sibiri i Mongolii 11-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125226: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.03.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Limoniidae indet.1
Limoniidae indet.1 Speiser 1909 crane fly
PIN 515/116, 14
 Ephemerida - Mesonetidae
Mesoneta antiqua2
Mesoneta antiqua2 Brauer et al. 1889 mayfly
PIN 515/24, 115, 128, 135, 158
 Ephemeroptera - Siphlonuridae
Mesobaetis allata, Mesobaetis sibirica
Mesobaetis allata Sinitshenkova 1985 mayfly
PIN 515/27
Mesobaetis sibirica Brauer et al. 1889 mayfly
PIN 515/33, 35
1Kalugina 1985; 2Tshernova 1969