Caergen Village, Duohemao Town, Zeku County: Burdigalian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Helius (Helius) qinghai n. sp. Wu and Krzemiński 2019
Wu et al. 2019 1 specimen
CNU-DIP-QZ2017001
Insecta - Hemiptera - Psyllidae
Cacopsylla trigona n. sp. Zhang et al. 2019
Zhang et al. 2019 3 specimens
CNU-HOM-PS2018001, 002, 003 (5 measurements)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cixiidae
Cixius discretus n. sp. Li et al. 2017
5 specimens
CNU-HEM-QZ2015001, 002, 003, 004, 005 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Hemerobiidae
Wesmaelius makarkini n. sp. Yang et al. 2018
Yang et al. 2018 1 specimen
CNU-NEU-QZ2017001
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Qinghai
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 101.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 96.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Guide Formation:Garang
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: <16-19 Ma age given in text
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous "shale"
Lithology description: Oil shale
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Capital Normal University (Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, College of Life Sciences)
Metadata
Database number:184254
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2017-02-10 23:15:17 Last modified:2022-09-05 17:11:59
Access level:the public Released:2017-02-10 23:15:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61590. Y. Li, X. H. Liu, D. Ren, X. C. Li, and Y. Z. Yao. 2017. First report of Cixiidae insect fossils from the Miocene of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and their palaeoenvironmental implications. Alcheringa 41:54-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

67728 S. Y. Wu, W. Krzemiński, A. Soszyńska-Maj and D. Ren. 2019. New fossil representative of the genus Helius (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the little known and newly discovered locality Caergen Village of northeastern Tibetan Plateau (China). Palaeontologia Electronica 22(1.2A):1-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
64491 Q. Yang, C. F. Shi, X. C. Li, H. Pang, and D. Ren. 2018. The first fossil brown lacewing from the Miocene of the Tibetan Plateau (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae). ZooKeys 726:145-154 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
82543 T. Y. Zhang, X. Y. Luo, Y. Z. Yao and D. Ren. 2019. A new fossil psyllid, Cacopsylla trigona sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Psyllidae), from the Miocene of China. Palaeoentomology 2:413-417 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]