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
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