Gaho-dong, Jinju-shi (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Where: South Korea (35.2° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jinju Formation (Shindong Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• =Dongmyeon Formation. Formerly given a wide age range (often Barremian), but youngest detrital zircon in Jinju Formation is 106 Ma, indicating an age no older than Albian (Lee et al., 2010)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Initiated by north–south left-lateral regional simple shear as a wrench tectonic system due to highly oblique subduction of the Izanagi Plate (Lee et al., 2010)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Kyeongnam Science High School; Dae-Gu Science High School

Primary reference: K. S. Baek and S. Y. Yang. 2004. Cockroaches from the early Cretaceous of Korea (Blattaria: Mesoblattinidae). Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 20:71-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184785: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.03.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattaria - Rhipidoblattinidae
Rhipidoblattina sp.
Rhipidoblattina sp. Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
KS 5032
 Blattodea - Blattulidae
Blattula sp.
Blattula sp. Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
KS 5036
 Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Mesoblattinidae indet., Mesoblattina sp.
Mesoblattinidae indet. Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
KS 5031, 5207, 5404, DG 0002
Mesoblattina sp. Geinitz 1880 cockroach
KS 5026, 5401, 5402