Kzyl-Zhar Locality (PIN collection 2284): Turonian, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hymenoptera
Cretopone magna n. gen., n. sp. Dlussky 1975
Rasnitsyn 1975 1 specimen
PIN 2284/14 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera
Notocupes caducus n. sp. Ponomarenko 1969
1 specimen
recombined as Brachilatus caducus
PIN 2284/7 (2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 67.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 60.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular lithified mudstone
Lithology description: "Insects…come from mudstone lenses" Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002
Environment:pond Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: "...mudstone lenses in fluvial deposits" Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002. Lagoon environment according to Zherikhin (1978) and Legalov (2014).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:425 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Metadata
Database number:114329
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-08-13 09:04:06 Last modified:2014-08-23 10:43:09
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-13 09:04:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8974.ETE A. G. Ponomarenko. 1969. Istoricheskoe Razvitie Zhestkokrylykh-Arkhostemat [Historical Development of the Archostomate Beetles]. Trudy Akademiya Nauk SSSR 125:1-240 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

37059 A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147:1-134 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]