Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (20.2° S, 43.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 35.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fonseca Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Most sources assign an Eocene age, but some say Priabonian/Rupelian.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, argillaceous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by M. Mendes and party in 1999-2000

• Repository: Invertebrate Paleontological Collection, Museu de Historia Natural UNIVALE, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais State; Coleção Paleontológica do Laboratório de Paleontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará em Fortaleza

Primary reference: M. Mendes and I. D. Pinto. 2001. The first findings of Blattodea (Insecta, Blattidae) from the Fonseca Formation, Oligocene period, Minas Gerais, in the south east of Brazil. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 24(52/53):283-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138890: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2013

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