La Cantera, Sierra del Gigantea: Late Aptian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera
8 specimens
CORD-PZ 2008, 2010, 2025, 2035, 2069, 3401, 3511, 3519
Insecta - Hemiptera - Notonectidae
Petrulevičius et al. 2010 1 specimen
CORD-PZ 2034 (paratype of Canteronecta irajae from Mazzoni, 1985)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:San Luis
Coordinates: 33.0° South, 66.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° South, 25.1° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval: Late Aptian
Age range of interval: 119.57 - 113.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Cantera
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:lacustrine - small Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Palaeontological Laboratory of Córdoba University (CORD-PZ)
Metadata
Database number:163475
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-10-28 20:38:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-10-28 20:38:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
53266. 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]

Secondary references:

39679 J. F. Petrulevičius, A. Nel, and A. S. Sallenave. 2010. Recent genus Notonecta (Insecta: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) in the Lower Cretaceous of San Luis, Argentina: Palaeoecological implications. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46:247-253 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan/M. Clapham]