Caergen Village, Duohemao Town, Zeku County (Miocene of China)

Where: Qinghai, China (35.4° N, 101.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 96.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Garang Formation (Guide Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• <16-19 Ma age given in text

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• Oil shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Capital Normal University (Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, College of Life Sciences)

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184254: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Helius (Helius) qinghai n. sp.1
Helius (Helius) qinghai n. sp.1 Wu and Krzemiński 2019 crane fly
CNU-DIP-QZ2017001
 Neuroptera - Hemerobiidae
Wesmaelius makarkini n. sp.2
Wesmaelius makarkini n. sp.2 Yang et al. 2018 brown lacewing
CNU-NEU-QZ2017001
 Hemiptera - Psyllidae
Cacopsylla trigona n. sp.3
Cacopsylla trigona n. sp.3 Zhang et al. 2019 jumping plant louse
CNU-HOM-PS2018001, 002, 003
 Hemiptera - Cixiidae
Cixius discretus n. sp.
Cixius discretus n. sp. Li et al. 2017 cixiid planthopper
CNU-HEM-QZ2015001, 002, 003, 004, 005
1Wu et al. 2019; 2Yang et al. 2018; 3Zhang et al. 2019