Chookdong-myeon, Sacheon-shi (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (35.1° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jinju Formation (Shindong Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Dongmyeong Formation (=Jinju Formation). Formerly given a wide age range (often Barremian), but youngest detrital zircon in Jinju Formation is 106 Ma, indicating an age no older than Albian (Lee et al., 2010)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, gray shale

• Initiated by north–south left-lateral regional simple shear as a wrench tectonic system due to highly oblique subduction of the Izanagi Plate (Lee et al., 2010)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Dae-Gu Science High School; Keo-Chang Junior Middle School

Primary reference: K. S. Baek and S. Y. Yang. 2004. Cockroaches from the early Cretaceous of Korea (Blattaria: Mesoblattinidae). Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 20:71-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184786: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.03.2017

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Mesoblattinidae indet. Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
KC 0018
Mesoblattina sp. Geinitz 1880 cockroach
DG 0005