YHW 353, Lanping salt mine, Lanping County (Paleocene of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (26.5° N, 99.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 86.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Salt formation in Lanping-Simao basin found Paleocene units.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Cenozoic pull-apart basin (Xue et al., 2007)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1977. Fossil insects from Yunnan. Mesozoic Fossils from Yunnan 2:373-382 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165250: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Orthoptera - Eumastacidae
Taphacris stenosis n. sp.
Taphacris stenosis n. sp. Lin 1977 monkey grasshopper
NIGP 24356