Turga (PIN collection 445) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Chita, Russian Federation (50.8° N, 116.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 114.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turga Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• Correlative with the Zaza Formation and most likely with upper Yixian or lower Jiufotang Formation, therefore an Aptian (probably early Aptian) age.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by S.A. Muzylev in 1930; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: O. M. Martynova. 1949. Mezozoyskie setchatokrylie (Neuroptera) i ikh znachenie dlya ponimaniya filogenii i sistematiki otryada. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 20:150-170 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157201: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Neuroptera - Psychopsidae
Angaropsychops turgensis n. gen. n. sp.
Angaropsychops turgensis n. gen. n. sp. Martynova 1949 silky lacewing
PIN 445/1