ammonites
Daohugou (PMOL collection) (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.3° N, 119.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 122.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daohugou Formation, Callovian to Callovian (164.7 - 155.7 Ma)

• The age of the Daohugou fauna has been controversial. Liu et al. (2012) obtained U-Pb shrimp ages of 160.5 and 161.0 Myr on ash beds associated with fossils of the Daohugou fauna, suggesting a Callovian-Oxfordian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, tuffaceous shale

• "tuffaceous shale"; "freshwater shales interbedded with tuffs"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical

• Paleontological Museum of Liaoning (PMOL), Shenyang Normal University

•(210057), Shenyang, China

Primary reference: Y. S. Liu, C. F. Shi, and D. Ren. 2011. A new lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Grammolingiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa 2897:51-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113373: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.07.2011

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