Manlay (PIN collection 3568) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (44.1° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 106.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mogotuin Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Correlative with Bon Tsagaan based on pollen and plants

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Type E lake of Sinitshenkova & Zherikhin. Thick lacustrine sequences (up to several hundreds of meters), lateral distribution up to few dozens of kilometers; mostly rich in carbonates; coalless, organic matter content from low to high (bituminous paper-shales); fossils mostly in siltstones, sandstones, and bituminous shales. Depth a few to a few dozens of meters.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1975, 1976; reposited in the PIN

• Low specimen numbers may reflect 1975 expedition, not collected from measured sections.

Primary reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1980. Novye vidy zhukov mestonakhozhdeniya Manlay. Rannemelovoe Ozero Manlay, Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya Trudy 13:52-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151596: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.10.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera -
Adephaga indet.
Adephaga indet. Clairville 1806 beetle
PIN 3568/346
 Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Coptoclavella elegans n. gen. n. sp.
Coptoclavella elegans n. gen. n. sp. Ponomarenko 1980 beetle
PIN 3568/362
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Cordorabus vittatus n. sp.
Cordorabus vittatus n. sp. Ponomarenko 1980 ground beetle
PIN 3568/360
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Megalymma rohdendorfi
Megalymma rohdendorfi Tikhomirova 1980 rove beetle
PIN 3568/427