La Pedrera de Rubies (BMNH 1955 collection) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.0° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• "Upper Berriasian-Lower Barremian on the basis of ostracods... Nevertheless, it could be somewhat younger (Upper Hauterivian-Lower Barremian), on the basis of a work in progress on its charophytes"

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, brown limestone

• "distal areas of a large, shallow... coastal lake."

•"Insects are associated with freshwater Ostracoda genera"

• "rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by F. M. Wonnacott in 1955; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float)

• "Insects collected from scree material and their exact stratigraphical positions are unknown". Whalley & Jarzembowski, 1985

Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1985. Fossil insects from the Lithographic Limestone Montsech (Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous), Lérida Province, Spain. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 38(5):381-412 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118325: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 12.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• there is a "diverse biota, including plants, mollusks, arthropods, and a variety of vertebrates"
Insecta
 Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Artitocoblatta hispanica n. sp. Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985 cockroach
NHM In 59505
 Hemiptera - Palaeontinidae
"Wonnacottella pulcherrima n. gen. n. sp." = Ilerdocossus pulcherrima
"Wonnacottella pulcherrima n. gen. n. sp." = Ilerdocossus pulcherrima Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985 true bug
NHM In 59486
 Hemiptera -
Geocorisae indet. true bug
NHM In 59495
Aleyrodoidea indet. true bug
NHM In 60600
 Hymenoptera -
Apocrita indet. Gerstaecker 1867 wasp
NHM In 60602
 Coleoptera -
"Curculionidea indet." = Curculionoidea
"Curculionidea indet." = Curculionoidea Latreille 1802 weevil
NHM In 49658
 Coleoptera - Belidae
"Eobelus solutus n. sp." = Montsecbelus solutus
"Eobelus solutus n. sp." = Montsecbelus solutus Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985 weevil
NHM In 59510
 Coleoptera - Caridae
Jarzembowskia edmundi n. gen. n. sp.
Jarzembowskia edmundi n. gen. n. sp. Zherikhin and Gratshev 1997 weevil
NHM IN 49648 (part of Curculionidae indet. of Whalley and Jarzembowski)
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Buprestidae indet. Leach 1815 jewel beetle
NHM In 59604, 59511
 Ephemeroptera - Palingeniidae
Mesopalingea lerida n. gen. n. sp.
Mesopalingea lerida n. gen. n. sp. Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985 mayfly
NHM In 59509, 44657, 49653, 49657, 59506, 59508
 Diptera - Sciomyzidae
Sciomyzidae "larva sp. 3" Fallen 1820 marsh fly
NHM In 49656
 Diptera - Stratiomyidae
"Stratiomyiidae "larva sp. 1"" = Stratiomyidae, "Stratiomyiidae "larva sp. 2"" = Stratiomyidae
"Stratiomyiidae "larva sp. 1"" = Stratiomyidae Latreille 1802 soldier fly
NHM In 59503
"Stratiomyiidae "larva sp. 2"" = Stratiomyidae Latreille 1802 soldier fly
NHM In 49650