H368, Yantang, Shexian (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Anhui, China (29.8° N, 118.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 121.9° 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: marine; 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 155609: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Paroryssidae
Renaliculus triaenus n. gen. n. sp.
Renaliculus triaenus n. gen. n. sp. Lin 1980 wood wasp
NIGP 38579
 Diptera - Chaoboridae
"Chironomaptera melanura" = Chironomaptera gregaria
"Chironomaptera melanura" = Chironomaptera gregaria Grabau 1923 phantom midge
NIGP 38592, 38593