XII.53, Huangyadi, Muyudianxiang, Laiyang City (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Shandong, China (37.1° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 122.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laiyang Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, gray, yellow siltstone

• Large (several hundred km2) lake in the Laiyang basin. In addition to the abundant entomofauna, plant fossil fragments, fish and a single bird feather also have been found. Water plants were apparently rare, and at the centre of the lake I have found no plant or animal fossils.
• The Third Member of the Laiyang Formation consists of 250-705 m of calcareous sandstone, siltstone and fine-granted sandstone intercalated with thin, paper-like, insect-rich shales.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Beijing Natural History Museum

Primary reference: W. L. Wang and M. W. Liu. 1996. A new species of Notocupes from the Cretaceous of Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province. Memoirs of Beijing Natural History Museum 55:79-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167245: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera -
Notocupes ludongensis n. sp.
Notocupes ludongensis n. sp. Wang and Liu 1996 beetle
BNPIS 951101