Caijiagou, Jinlingsi, Beipiao County (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.7° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 123.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuchengzi Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 132.9 Ma)

• New radiometric dating and synthesis of previous ages by Zhang et al. (2009) suggest that the formation was deposited between 147 and 136 Ma.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

• Repository possibly NIGP on the basis of the specimen number format

Primary reference: W. L. Wang. 1980. Insecta. Paleontological Atlas of Northeast China. II. Mesozoic and Cenozoic 130-153 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Ephemerida - Mesonetidae
Mesoneta sp. Brauer et al. 1889 mayfly
NIGP 20073