East of Rio Timbó, near Poço Preto: Changhsingian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Prosbolidae
1 specimen
RGMN-T007 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Santa Catarina
Coordinates: 26.3° South, 50.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.3° South, 13.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Lopingian
Stage: Changhsingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Changhsingian
Age range of interval: 254.14 - 251.902 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rio do Rasto Member:Morro Pelado
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified claystone
Lithology description: "upper Morro Pelado Member which consists of red claystones and siltstones with lenticular intercalations of thin sandstones" (Schneider et al., 1974).
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: Parana basin. Lacustrine deposits, including distal turbidite facies.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Martins-Neto Collection, housed in the Departamento de Entomologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Campus de Ribeirao Preto - FFCL-USP-RP.
Metadata
Database number:123007
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-10 04:13:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-10 04:13:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

52734. R. G. Martins-Neto and R. Rohn. 1996. Primeiro registro de inseto na Formação Rio do Rasto, Bacia do Paraná, com descrição de novo táxon. Geociências 15:243-251 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

39201 R. G. Martins-Neto, O. F. Gallego, and R. N. Melchor. 2003. The Triassic insect fauna from South America (Argentina, Brazil and Chile): a checklist (except Blattoptera and Coleoptera) and descriptions of new taxa. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 46(Suppl):229-256 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]