Santa Fe farm, Padre Eterno, Taubaté municipality (MN collection) (Oligocene of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (23.0° S, 45.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 39.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremembé Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• Taubaté basin, characterized by half-grabens and contains up to 1000 m of sediments cut by normal faults.
• Oil shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Departamento da Geologia e Paleontologia do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (MN)

Primary reference: R. G. Martins-Neto. 1998. A Paleoentomofauna da Formação Tremembé (Bacia de Taubaté) Oligoceno do Estado de São Paulo: novos Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Auchenorrhyncha e Lepidoptera. Revista Universidade Guarulhos - Série Geociências 3(6):58-70 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156004: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Psephenidae
Psephenella ferreirai n. gen. n. sp.
Psephenella ferreirai n. gen. n. sp. Martins-Neto 1998 water penny beetle
MN-5623