Valle de las Delicias, near El Indio & Cerro Wencelao (Permian of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (26.4° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 34.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Difunta Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Hanieloceras zone, upper member

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, black, calcareous shale

• "…the whole sequence suggesting shallow-water near-shore conditions of deposition."
• "Specimen collected in a hard, black, calcareous concretion in a black shale…"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R. E. King; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter and A. K. Miller. 1937. A Permian insect from Coahuila, Mexico. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 34:125-127 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123967: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Scytinopteridae
Scytinoptera mexicana n. sp.
Scytinoptera mexicana n. sp. Carpenter and Miller 1937 true bug
YPM 15235