Valdeão, near Valongo (Carboniferous of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (41.2° N, 8.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Douro-Beira trough. Pull-apart basin, controlled by the sinistral shear activity of the Douro-Beira Carboniferous Trough after the upper Westphalian D.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: C. Teixeira. 1941. Nouveaux insects du Stéphanien Portugais. Boletim da Sociedade Geológica de Portugal 1:13-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152394: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Eugereonidae
Valdeania medeirosi n. gen. n. sp.
Valdeania medeirosi n. gen. n. sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect
 Dicondylia -
Blattaria indet.
Blattaria indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Lusitanomylacris pruvosti n. gen. n. sp., Stephanomylacris sp., Stephanomylacris duriensis n. sp., Stephanomylacris zbyszewskii n. sp.
Lusitanomylacris pruvosti n. gen. n. sp. Teixeira 1939 cockroach
Stephanomylacris sp. Teixeira 1941 cockroach
Stephanomylacris duriensis n. sp. Teixeira 1941 cockroach
Stephanomylacris zbyszewskii n. sp. Teixeira 1941 cockroach
type, form alpha, and form beta, and form gamma
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Archimylacridae indet.
Archimylacridae indet. Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
Complete insect and small tegmen fragment
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Phyloblatta sp., ? Phyloblatta sp., Phyloblatta portuensis n. sp., "Phyloblatta carringtoni n. sp." = Phyloblatta gaudryi, Phyloblatta cf. rosasi, Phyloblatta rosasi n. sp., Eneriblatta sp., Eneriblatta lusitanica n. sp., Eneriblatta elegantissima n. sp., Eneriblatta insignis n. sp., Eneriblatta valongensis n. sp.
Phyloblatta sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
One additional in Teixeira, 1941
? Phyloblatta sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
Phyloblatta portuensis n. sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect
"Phyloblatta carringtoni n. sp." = Phyloblatta gaudryi Agnus 1903 winged insect
Two additional (form alpha and beta in Teixeira, 1941)
Phyloblatta cf. rosasi Teixeira 1939 winged insect
Phyloblatta rosasi n. sp. Teixeira 1939 winged insect
Eneriblatta sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect
Eneriblatta lusitanica n. sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect
Eneriblatta elegantissima n. sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect
Eneriblatta insignis n. sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect
Eneriblatta valongensis n. sp. Teixeira 1941 winged insect