Meixi, Yiyang County: Sinemurian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattaria - Caloblattinidae
Samaroblatta sp. Tillyard 1919
2 specimens
NIGP 109264, 109266
Samaroblatta nitida Lin 1986
1 specimen
NIGP 109267 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera
Notocupes sp. Ponomarenko 1964
1 specimen
NIGP 109266 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Mecoptera - Protorthophlebiidae
Protorthophlebia latipennis Tillyard 1933
1 specimen
NIGP 109268 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Reculida - Geinitziidae
Meixiella postiretis n. gen., n. sp. Huang et al. 1991
1 specimen
recombined as Shurabia postiretis
NIGP 109269 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Jiangxi
Coordinates: 28.6° North, 117.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° North, 122.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Menkoushan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of Menkoushan Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:paralic indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Foreland basin of Dabei orogen
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NIGPAS
Metadata
Database number:156323
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-05-17 19:55:42 Last modified:2014-07-17 16:11:17
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-17 19:55:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

51213. Z. Q. Huang, F. Y. Li, and Q. B. Lin. 1991. Some Early Jurassic insects from Meixi of Yiyang County, Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 30:647-653 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]