Where: Russian Federation (45.1° N, 42.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 41.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Karagan Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by B.F. Kaspiev in 1938; reposited in the PIN
Primary reference: Y. P. Nekrutenko. 1965. Tertiary nymphalid butterflies and some phylogenetic aspects of systematic lepidopterology. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 4(3):149-158 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105571: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.02.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Lindy Edwards
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paroecanthus caucasicus n. gen. n. sp.11
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"Xyleutites miocenicus n. gen. n. sp." = Noctuites miocenicus4
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"Vanessa karaganica n. sp." = Aglais karaganica, "Pyrameis fossilis n. sp." = Vanessa fossilis
"Vanessa karaganica n. sp." = Aglais karaganica Nekrutenko 1965 brush-footed butterfly PIN 254/2936a
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Limnephilus kaspievi12 Martynova 1939 caddisfly PIN 254/256, 651, 813, 958, 1010, 1212, 1262, 1264, 1268, 1269, 1271, 1272, 1273, 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1281, 1313, 1359, 1955, 1351, 3041, 3186; presumably includes specimens from Temnolesskaya
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Cybister fractus n. sp.10, Copelatus spp.10, Copelatus fossilis n. sp.10, Copelatus ponomarenkoi n. sp.10, Copelatus stavropolitanus n. sp.10, ? Graphoderus mirabilis n. sp.10, Colymbetes sp.10, Colymbetes miocaenicus n. sp.10, Hydroporus lapideus n. sp.10, Methles caucasicus n. sp.10
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"Lasiodactylus caucasicus n. sp." = Phenolia (Lasiodites) caucasicus2
"Lasiodactylus caucasicus n. sp." = Phenolia (Lasiodites) caucasicus2 Kirejtshuk 1990 sap beetle PIN 254/1794
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Mysidioides migdisovae n. sp.1
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Miostenolestes zherikhini n. gen. n. sp.9, Paraoligolestes stavropolensis n. sp.9, Stenolestes fasciata n. sp.9
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Aeshna stavropolensis n. sp.8
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Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) caucasiensis n. sp.7, Helius stavropolensis n. sp.6, Helius miocenicus n. sp.6, Helius verticillis n. sp.6
Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) caucasiensis n. sp.7 Krzemiński and Freiwald 1991 crane fly PIN 254/671, 275
Helius miocenicus n. sp.6 Krzemiński 2002 crane fly PIN 254/833, 170a, 170b, 135, 322, 337, 533, 590, 598, 612, 821, 1079, 1442, 1580, 2301
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"? Pseudacidia clotho n. sp." = Myoleja clotho3
"? Pseudacidia clotho n. sp." = Myoleja clotho3 Korneyev 1982 fruit fly PIN 254/724 (PIN 252/724 is error?)
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