First records of Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Upper Triassic of Argentina (Mendoza)

Abstract

Lara, M.B. & Aristov, D., August 2016. First records of Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Upper Triassic of Argentina (Mendoza). Alcheringa 41, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518

A new grylloblattid (Permoshurabia argentina sp. nov.: Geinitziidae) is described and illustrated from the Upper Triassic of Argentina. The material represents the first record of this family from Argentina and expands the geographic distribution of this group during the Triassic.

María Belén Lara [[email protected]], Area Paleontología (Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral-Universidad Nacional del Nordeste-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Casilla de Correo 128, 3400 Corrientes, Argentina; Danil Aristov [[email protected]], Borissak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str. 123, Moscow, 117997, Russia.

Key words:

• Grylloblattida
• geinitziidae
• upper triassic
• potrerillos formation
• Argentina

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to A.P. Rasnitsyn (Borissyak Paleontologycal Institute, RAS) and Bo Wang (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for their useful comments, to Dr Stephen McLoughlin (editor) and to anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on an earlier version of the paper. For M.B. Lara, this research was supported by grants from the Secretaría General de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Q006-2014) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (PIP 2014-2016, No. 11220130100317 CO). For D.S. Aristov, this research was supported by Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences ‘The problem of the origin of life and the formation of the biosphere’ and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant number 15-04-01498.

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