Where: Mendoza, Argentina (33.1° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° S, 34.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Potrerillos Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Fossil insects in the second unit, 10m from the bottom, the unit is 50m thick
Environment/lithology: lacustrine delta plain; lithified, sandy, carbonaceous shale and sandy, conglomeratic claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by E. Glaser, G. Bodenbender in 1894-1904; reposited in the MLP
• Other Repository: Palaeontological Laboratory of Córdoba University. Material illustrated in Kurtz's (1921) atlas is from Córdoba. La Plata Museum Palaeobotanical collection is a duplicate lot from the large original set of fossils which has been subdivided by Bodenbender.
Primary reference: G. R. Wieland. 1926. South American fossil insect discovery. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 12:130-135 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151547: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.10.2013, edited by Erin Leckey and Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Gondwanoperlidium argentinarum n. gen. n. sp., "? Elcana argentina n. sp." = Gondwanoperlidium argentina, Gondwanoperlidium mendozensis n. sp.
"? Elcana argentina n. sp." = Gondwanoperlidium argentina Cockerell 1926 stonefly Specimen on pl 22, fig 336 of Kurtz, 1921 (part of Kurtz's Baiera argentina)
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