Kzyl-Zhar Locality (PIN collection 3289) (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.4° N, 67.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 60.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, lenticular mudstone

• "...mudstone lenses in fluvial deposits" Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002. Lagoon environment according to Zherikhin (1978) and Legalov (2014).
• "Insects…come from mudstone lenses" Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: V. B. Golub and Y. A. Popov. 2012. A new lace bug species of the genus Sinaldocader (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Tingidae) from the Turonian of southwestern Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 46:258-261 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127856: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.05.2012, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Trichoptera - Philopotamidae
Kulickiella roziczkae4 Sukatsheva 2001 finger-net caddisfly
PIN 3289/17
 Raphidioptera - Baissopteridae
Ascalapharia raphidiformis n. gen. n. sp.2 Novokshonov 1990 snakefly
PIN 3289/15
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
Falsotanaos convexus n. gen. n. sp.1
Falsotanaos convexus n. gen. n. sp.1 Legalov 2014 weevil
PIN 3289/12
 Hemiptera - Tingidae
"Sinaldocader rasnitsyni n. sp." = Kzylcader rasnitsyni
"Sinaldocader rasnitsyni n. sp." = Kzylcader rasnitsyni Golub and Popov 2012 lace bug
PIN 3289/30
 Hemiptera - Mimarachnidae
Mimarachnidae indet.3 Shcherbakov 2007 planthopper
mentioned in Shcherbakov, 2007