ZH4, Yaojiashan, Laocun, Shouchang (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (29.3° N, 119.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laocun Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Early Cretaceous "basin-and-range" style tectonics forming half-grabens (Wang & Shu, 2012)

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 155607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Mecoptera - Orthophlebiidae
? Mesopanorpa gambra n. sp.
? Mesopanorpa gambra n. sp. Lin 1980 scorpionfly
NIGP 38584
 Diptera - Chironomidae
Viduata otiosa n. gen. n. sp.
Viduata otiosa n. gen. n. sp. Lin 1980 non biting midge
NIGP 38589
 Diptera - Antefungivoridae
"Lycoriomima mictis n. sp." = Antefungivora mictis
"Lycoriomima mictis n. sp." = Antefungivora mictis Lin 1980 fly
NIGP 38599