Khetana River, outcrop 7 (PIN collection 3800) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Khabarovsk, Russian Federation (59.4° N, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 65.7° N, 126.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amka Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• The Emanra Formation and its flora were traditionally assigned an Albian age, but the unit is now known as the Amka Formation and is of Late Coniacian age on the basis of U/Pb dating (86.1 ± 0.3 Ma), according to Akinin et al. (2019).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, tuffaceous mudstone

• Intra-arc basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1985; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: V. V. Gromov, V. Y. Dmitriev, V. V. Zherikhin, E. L. Lebedev, A. G. Ponomarenko, A. P. Rasnitsyn, and I. D. Sukacheva. 1993. Melovye entomofauny basseyna r. Ul'i (zapadnoe Priokhot'e). In A. G. Ponomarenko (ed.), Mezozoyskie Nasekomye i Ostrakody Azii 5-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138054: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Trichoptera -
Folindusia (Folindusia) palmaris n. sp. Sukatsheva 1993 caddisfly
PIN 3800/811, 823, 825
 Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Cupedinae indet. Lacordaire 1857 reticulated beetle
PIN 3800/1103