Khetana River (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 in 1985; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. V. Gorochov. 1988. O klassifikatsii iskopaemykh pryamokrylykh nadsemeystva Phasmomimoidea (Orthoptera) s opisannem novykh taksonov. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 178:32-44 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152090: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Susumaniidae
Paraphasmomimella chetanica n. sp. Gorochov 1988 winged insect
PIN 3800/1715b
Eosusumania fusca n. gen. n. sp. Gorochov 1988 winged insect
PIN 3800/1715a
 Hymenoptera - Armaniidae
Armania sp.1 Dlussky 1983 wasp
 Coleoptera - Caridae
Zherichiniletes khetanus n. gen. n. sp.2
Zherichiniletes khetanus n. gen. n. sp.2 Legalov 2007 weevil
PIN 3800/1208