ZK 28-4, Moxie, Mengla County (Paleocene to of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (21.3° N, 101.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 95.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene to Paleocene (66.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1977. Fossil insects from Yunnan. Mesozoic Fossils from Yunnan 2:373-382 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165275: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Trogossitidae
Platokoleos moxiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Platokoleos moxiensis n. gen. n. sp. Lin 1977 bark gnawing beetle
NIGP 24362