Baissa (PIN collection 3064, bed 4) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Buryatia, Russian Federation (53.3° N, 112.1° E: paleocoordinates 56.0° N, 108.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zaza Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• C. longipoda, E. trisetalis and Lycoptera all occur in the Zaza Formation indicating that this formation could be correlated with the upper Yixian Formation and the lower Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning, which have a duration of 122.5-120 Ma. So it is possible to assign the Zaza Formation to an Aptian age. Also correlated with Barremian-Aptian based on plants and pollen.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified marl and lithified, carbonaceous siltstone

• "The water body is reconstructed as an intermontane lake with the depth of 20 - 30 meters (LYAMINA 1980) situated within a granite massif. The presence of thick layers of the bituminous shales shows that the lake was meromictic, with the oxygen deficiency and high hydrogen sulphur level in the hypolimnion. However, the oxygenated epilimnion should be thick, with a lower boundary well beneath the limit of episodic wave action because no suffocation events are documented. The abundance of caddisflies, dobsonfly larvae and other groups intolerant to oxygen deficiency shows that in more shallow areas the water was clear and well-oxygenated even near the bottom. The lake ecosystem was highly productive as indicated by its complex trophic structure (Fig. 2) with several levels of predators up to the large sturgeon-like fish Stychopterus as well as by the extremely high abundance of planetonivorous phantom midges (SINICHENKOVA & ZHERIKHIN 1996)." ZHERIKHIN et al., 1999

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1993. Novye taksony sepulek (Vespida: Sepulcidae). In A. G. Ponomarenko (ed.), Mezozoyskie Nasekomye i Ostrakody Azii 80-99 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125795: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 24.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae
Micramphilius secundus n. sp. Rasnitsyn 1993 stem sawfly
PIN 3064/1934
 Hemiptera - Palaeoaphididae
Ellinaphidinae indet.2 Kania and Wegierek 2008 aphid
PIN 3064/4034
Ellinaphis cubocrassa2 Kania and Wegierek 2008 aphid
PIN 3064/4035
 Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Ipsaneusidalys latipennis1 Blagoderov 1998 fungus gnat
PIN 3064/8670
 Diptera - Phoridae
"Sciadoceridae indet." = Sciadocerinae3
"Sciadoceridae indet." = Sciadocerinae3 Schmitz 1929 scuttle fly
PIN 3064/8686