Where: Hunan, China (28.0° N, 113.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 118.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zaoshang Formation, Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Zaoshang Formation is Lower Jurassic, but presence of Waagenoperna bivalve assemblage is sometimes correlated with Sinemurian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1986. Early Mesozoic fossil insects from South China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 170:1-112 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155357: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.04.2014

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