Where: Anhui, China (29.9° N, 118.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 122.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yantang Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the NIGPAS
Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1980. Fossil insects from the Mesozoic of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. Division and Correlation of the Mesozoic Volcano-Sedimentary Strata in Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces 211-234 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155595: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Chironomaptera melanura" = Chironomaptera gregaria
"Chironomaptera melanura" = Chironomaptera gregaria Grabau 1923 phantom midge | |
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