Hangxia valley, 20 km WWS from Yumen city (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Gansu, China (40.1° N, 96.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 92.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Zhonggou Formation, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• Early-Middle Albian according to Zheng et al. (2021)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: P. Vršanský. 2003. Umenocoleoidea - an amazing lineage of aberrant insects (Insecta, Blattaria). AMBA Projekty 7(1):1-32 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138923: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Petropterix kukalovae n. sp. Vršanský 2003 winged insect
NIGPAS 89JH1002–2