AAI14, Jiufotang, Kazuo (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.0° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 119.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jiufotang Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Q.B. Lin in 1963-1964; reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1976. The Jurassic fossil insects from western Liaoning. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 15(1):97-116 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151538: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2013, edited by Franco Villegas-Garin

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Cathayornithiformes - Cathayornithidae
Gracilornis jiufotangensis Li and Hou 2011 bird
Insecta
 Coleoptera -
"Sinocupes sp." = Notocupes
"Sinocupes sp." = Notocupes Ponomarenko 1964 beetle
NIGP 20114