Khetana River, outcrop 1, sample 3381/101 (PIN collection 3800) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Khabarovsk, Russian Federation (59.4° N, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 65.7° N, 126.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amka Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• The Emanra Formation and its flora were traditionally assigned an Albian age, but the unit is now known as the Amka Formation and is of Late Coniacian age on the basis of U/Pb dating (86.1 ± 0.3 Ma), according to Akinin et al. (2019).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, tuffaceous mudstone

• Intra-arc basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by E.L. Lebedeva in 1976; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: V. V. Gromov, V. Y. Dmitriev, V. V. Zherikhin, E. L. Lebedev, A. G. Ponomarenko, A. P. Rasnitsyn, and I. D. Sukacheva. 1993. Melovye entomofauny basseyna r. Ul'i (zapadnoe Priokhot'e). In A. G. Ponomarenko (ed.), Mezozoyskie Nasekomye i Ostrakody Azii 5-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138067: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Xyelidae
Chionoxyela nivea n. gen. n. sp.
Chionoxyela nivea n. gen. n. sp. Rasnitsyn 1993 sawfly
PIN 3800/58