La Pedrera de Rubies (MNHN coll) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as La Pedrera de Meià

Where: 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)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

• "distal areas of a large, shallow... coastal lake"
• "rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: M. B. Mostovski and X. Martínez-Delclòs. 2000. New Nemestrinoidea (Diptera: Brachycera) from the Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous of Eurasia, taxonomy, and palaeobiology. Entomological Problems 31(2):137-148 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152696: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.11.2013, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Nemestrinidae
"Hirmoneura (? Hirmoneura) richterae n. sp." = Hirmoneura richterae, Hirmoneura (Eohirmoneura) neli n. sp.
"Hirmoneura (? Hirmoneura) richterae n. sp." = Hirmoneura richterae Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs 2000 tangle-veined fly
MNHN B48822 NB
Hirmoneura (Eohirmoneura) neli n. sp. Mostovski and Martínez-Delclòs 2000 tangle-veined fly
MNHN B48821 AIB
 Hymenoptera - Angarosphecidae
Ilerdosphex wenzae n. gen. n. sp. Rasnitsyn 2000 apoid wasp
MNHN-LP-S. 11456
Pompilopterus montsecensis n. sp. Rasnitsyn 2000 apoid wasp
MNHN-LP-B. 848826