Dalazi, Zhixin district, Yanji County: Aptian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae
Chironomaptera gregaria (Grabau 1923)
1 specimen
NIGP 94887
Insecta - Blattaria - Caloblattinidae
Rhipidoblattina decoris Lin 1978
1 specimen
NIGP 94875
Insecta - Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Coptoclava longipoda Ping 1928
2 specimens
NIGP 94885, 94886
Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Orphnospercheus lonjingensis n. gen., n. sp. Lin 1992
1 specimen
NIGP 94884 (2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Jilin
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 129.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.4° North, 129.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Formation:Dalazi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Aptian age based on angiosperms (Tao and Zhang, 1990). Other papers have assigned an Albian age based on pollen and plants (Yu and Miao, 1983; Zhang, 1986).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green lithified sandstone
Environment:lacustrine - large Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: Dalazi basin is rift basin controlled by NNE rift structure (Tao and Zhang, 1990).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NIGPAS
Metadata
Database number:172391
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2015-08-06 19:51:19 Last modified:2015-08-06 19:51:19
Access level:the public Released:2015-08-06 19:51:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

56022. Q. B. Lin. 1992. Insecta, II: Jurassic-Early Cretaceous insects. Paleontological Atlas of Jilin Province 417-424 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]