Guho-ri, Chookdong-myeon, Sacheon-si (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (35.1° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 122.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jinju Formation (Shindong Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Formerly given a wide age range (often Barremian), but youngest detrital zircon in Jinju Formation is 106 Ma, indicating an age no older than Albian (Lee et al., 2010)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, gray shale

• Initiated by north–south left-lateral regional simple shear as a wrench tectonic system due to highly oblique subduction of the Izanagi Plate (Lee et al., 2010)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Natural Heritage Center of Korea, 396-1 Mannyeondong Seo-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

Primary reference: P. A. Selden, K. S. Nam, S. H. Kim and H. J. Kim. 2012. A fossil spider from the Cretaceous of Korea. Journal of Paleontology 86:1-6 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146638: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Araneae -
Korearachne jinju n. gen. n. sp.
Korearachne jinju n. gen. n. sp. Selden et al. 2012 spider
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