La Cantera, Sierra del Gigantea (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: San Luis, Argentina (33.0° S, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 34.6° W)

When: La Cantera Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Palaeontological Laboratory of Córdoba University (CORD-PZ)

Primary reference: A. F. Mazzoni. 1985. Notonectidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) de la formación La Cantera (Cretácico Inferior), Provincia de San Luis, Argentina. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias 56:259-273 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163475: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Notonectidae
Notonecta mazzoniae Petrulevičius et al. 2010 true bug
CORD-PZ 2034 (paratype of Canteronecta irajae from Mazzoni, 1985)
 Hemiptera -
Canteronecta irajae n. gen. n. sp.
Canteronecta irajae n. gen. n. sp. Mazzoni 1985 true bug
CORD-PZ 2008, 2010, 2025, 2035, 2069, 3401, 3511, 3519