Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A.V. Bogachev in 1938-1941
• Repository: Zoological Institute of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku
Primary reference: A. A. Richter. 1947. Nekopaemye zlatki iz binagadinskikh kirovykh sloev (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Doklady Akademii Nauk Armyanskoy SSR 6:147-150 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172753: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Julodis faldermanni, Sphenoptera lapidaria, Sphenoptera bogatshevi n. sp., Sphenoptera martynovi n. sp., Perotis lugubris
Julodis faldermanni Mannerheim 1837 jewel beetle
Sphenoptera lapidaria Brullé 1832 metallic wood-boring beetle
Sphenoptera bogatshevi n. sp. Richter 1947 metallic wood-boring beetle Sphenoptera glabrata in Bogachev 1939
Perotis lugubris Fabricius 1777 jewel beetle | |
"Rhynchites martynovi n. sp." = Epirhynchites (Tshernyshevinius) auratus
"Rhynchites martynovi n. sp." = Epirhynchites (Tshernyshevinius) auratus Scopoli 1763 tooth-nosed snout weevil |