Posiet (Miocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (42.6° N, 130.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 129.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Miocene according to Sukacheva, 1982

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: In collection of Dr. A Kryshtofovich, Vladivostok

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1923. A fossil caddis-case. Nature 112:794 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127629: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 19.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Trichoptera - Phryganeidae
Phryganea kryshtofovichi n. sp. Cockerell 1923 large caddisfly