Where: Shandong, China (37.1° N, 121.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 122.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Laiyang Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• Laiyang paper shale
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by H.C. Tan; reposited in the NIGPAS
• Repository: Geological Survey of China Museum (prior to 1949), now at NIGP
Primary reference: C. Ping. 1928. Study of the Cretaceous fossil insects of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 13:5-57 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Mesolygaeus rotundocephalus n. sp." = Mesolygaeus laiyangensis
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