Kyzyl-Kiya, outcrop 1033, bed 33 (Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan)

Where: Kyrgyzstan (40.3° N, 72.1° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 76.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Mesozoic intramontane Tien Shan basins formed by reactivation during Qiangtang collision.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by L. Chastinikov in 1949; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Repository presumably PIN

Primary reference: O. M. Martynova. 1951. Dva novykh nizhneleyasovykh vida nasekomykh iz kizil-kii (Kirgizskaya SSR). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 78:1009-1011 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160469: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Mecoptera - Bittacidae
"Neorthophlebia abshirica n. sp." = Orthobittacus abshiricus
"Neorthophlebia abshirica n. sp." = Orthobittacus abshiricus Martynova 1951 hangingfly