West Dengqen county, near Gengshengqu bridge (Eocene of China)

Where: Xizang, China (31.6° N, 95.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 84.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1981. Two new species of Tertiary insect fossils from northern Xizang. Paleontology of Xizang, Book III, The Series of the Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 345-348 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132621: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Erotylidae
Erotylidae indet. Latreille 1802 pleasing fungus beetle
NIGP 47602