Gexi, Yiyang County (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (28.5° N, 117.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 121.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lengshuiwu Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, tuffaceous, white mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Beijing Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: Y. C. Hong. 1988. New fossil insects of Lenshuiwu Formation, northeastern Jiangxi. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 21:172-179 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156557: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Saldidae
"Xishania jiangxiensis n. sp." = Mesolygaeus laiyangensis
"Xishania jiangxiensis n. sp." = Mesolygaeus laiyangensis Ping 1928 shore bug
Jx07
 Coleoptera -
? Yumenocoleus tenuis n. sp. Hong 1988 beetle
Jx02