Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 74/2): Aptian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattaria - Caloblattinidae
Nuurcala popovi Vršanský 2003
Vršanský 2003 1 specimen
PIN 3559/430
Insecta - Mantodea
Cretophotina mongolica Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993
Vršanský 2003 1 specimen
PIN 3559/440
Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Elytropterix magnificiens n. gen., n. sp. Vršanský 2003
1 specimen
PIN 3559/ 1736 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Blattodea
Blattodea indet. (Latreille 1810)
Vršanský 2003 4 specimens
corrected as Blattaria
PIN 3559/435, 449, 451, 452
Insecta - Blattodea - Blattulidae
Elisama tsaganica (Vršanský 1999)
Vršanský 2003 4 specimens
PIN 3559/438, 444, 448, 453
Elisama parallela Vršanský 2003
Vršanský 2003 9 specimens
PIN 3559/432, 437, 439, 441, 442, 445, 446, 443, 450
Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Praeblattella ponomarenkoi Vršanský 2003
Vršanský 2003 1 specimen
PIN 3559/454, 462(447),
Tarakanula shcherbakovi Vršanský 2003
Vršanský 2003 2 specimens
PIN 3559/432, 439
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 45.4° North, 99.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.1° North, 99.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Aptian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:Aptian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bon Tsaagan Formation:Dzun-Bain Member:Khurilt
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Possibly late Neocomian (Barremian)-early Aptian but typically treated as Aptian by paleoentomologists.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Metadata
Database number:138924
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-02-02 05:35:24 Last modified:2014-08-06 13:42:24
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-02 05:35:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44605. P. Vršanský. 2003. Umenocoleoidea - an amazing lineage of aberrant insects (Insecta, Blattaria). AMBA Projekty 7(1):1-32 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

50792 P. Vršanský. 2003. Unique assemblage of Dictyoptera (Insecta - Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Bon Tsagaan Nuur in Mongolia. Entomological Problems 33:119-151 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]