Where: Chita, Russian Federation (51.1° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° N, 122.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 132.9 Ma)

• ?Undino-Danskaya series, Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by S.M. Sinitsa in 1983; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1990. Beetles, Scarabaeida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya. In A.P. Rasnitsyn (ed.), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 239:39-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152171: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.11.2013

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