Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (35.7° S, 58.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 58.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guerrero Member (Luján Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• The age of the sediments containing fossil insects ranges between 12,100 ± 100 14C BP and 13,400 ± 200 14C BP and was obtained by radiocarbon analysis of bone collagen and molluscan shells.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; unlithified, brown, green, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Histórico Municipal "Alfredo Enrique Mulgura" of General Belgrano City (MHM)
Primary reference: L. C. Ramírez and C. P. Alonso. 2016. Two late Pleistocene members of the white-grub complex, one of the most destructive insect pests of turfgrasses. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 19:531-536 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184124: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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