ZH163, Hejia, Lanxi City (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (29.6° N, 120.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 114.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fangyan Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 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 155612: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera -
Prionocephale deplanate n. gen. n. sp.
Prionocephale deplanate n. gen. n. sp. Lin 1980 scarab beetle
NIGP 38602