Km 30.25 of Belo Horizonte-Uberaba BR-262 road (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (20.0° S, 44.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° S, 44.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• According to Fonseca & Costa (1971) the sedimentary rocks are about 9 meters thick of yellow, ferruginous to purplish claystones and 1 meter from a conglomerate of Quartz pebbles and boulders. This sequence rests over a one of micaxist with beds of grey clays belonging probably to Rio das Velhas Series. The insect wing was associated with fossil plants believed to be of Pleistocene age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, brown, red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R. da Silva Santos, L. Duarte in 1972

• Repository: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Primary reference: I. D. Pinto. 1991. The fossil blattoid genus Amazonina. Taxonomy and geographical distribution. Pesquisas em Geociências 18:88-92 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153055: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Pseudophyllodromiidae
Amazonina purperae n. sp. Pinto 1991 cockroach
UFRGS-MP-I-6609