Abandoned coal mine west of Lores (Carboniferous of Spain)

Where: Spain (43.0° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 10.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cantabrian (307.5 - 305.1 Ma)

• Lower Stephanian, Cantabrian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified mudstone

• Cantabrian basin, Variscan foreland basin
• Dark mudstone with numerous plant remains

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the SMF

Primary reference: J. Kukalová-Peck and C. Brauckmann. 1992. Most Paleozoic Protorthoptera are ancestral hemipteroids: major wing braces as clues to a new phylogeny of Neoptera (Insecta). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70:2452-2473 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126590: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Geraridae
Cantabrala gandli n. gen. n. sp.
Cantabrala gandli n. gen. n. sp. Kukalová-Peck and Brauckmann 1992 winged insect
SMF 35377