Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 85/9): Aptian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattaria - Caloblattinidae
Nuurcala popovi Vršanský 2003
1 specimen
PIN 3559/474
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 45.5° 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:155550
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-04-16 22:56:21 Last modified:2014-08-08 21:59:33
Access level:the public Released:2014-04-16 22:56:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]