Where: Shandong, China (37.9° N, 118.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 114.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shahejie Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Lower-middle part of first member of Shahejia Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin, Y. M. Yao, W. D. Xiang and Y. R. Xia. 1988. An Oligocene micropalaeoentomofauna from Gubei District of Shandong and its ecological environment. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 5:331-345 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156318: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.05.2014

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