Shar-Teg, outcrop 422/2 (PIN collection 4270) (Jurassic of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (44.1° N, 95.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 49.8° N, 96.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sharteg Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, gray claystone

• Early syn-rift phase (Graham et al., 2001); extensional stress field from collapse of Mongolia-Okhotsk orogenic belt (Wu, 2013).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Joint Soviet Mongolian Paleontological Expedition in 1989; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. G. Ponomarenko. 2010. A new coleopterous family Mesocinetidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) from Late Mesozoic and notes on fossil remains from Shar-Teg (Upper Jurassic, South-Western Mongolia). Zoosystematica Rossica 19:301-325 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164949: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Mesocinetidae
Mesocinetus aequalis
Mesocinetus aequalis Kirejtshuk and Ponomarenko 2010 beetle
PIN 4270/1103