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Potrerilloxyela menendezi gen. et sp. nov. from the Late Triassic of Argentina: The oldest representative of Xyelidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) for Americas

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Potrerilloxyela menendezi gen. et sp. nov. from the Potrerillos Formation, Cuyo Basin, early Upper Triassic, Mendoza Province, Argentina is described. It is included in the living family Xyelidae and tentatively placed in Liadoxyelini of Xyelinae, which is otherwise known only from the Jurassic of Asia. This record is the first for Hymenoptera in the Triassic of the New World and provides new evidence about the close faunal connections between Laurasia and Gondwana during Mesozoic times. The phylogenetic position of the new genus is discussed.

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  1. Área Paleontología (Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral-CONICET) y Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Casilla de Correo 128, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina

    M. B. Lara

  2. Paleontological Institute, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    A. P. Rasnitsyn

  3. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    A. P. Rasnitsyn

  4. Laboratorio de Paleopalinología, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Centro Científico y Tecnológico, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Mendoza, Casilla de Correo 131, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina

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Original Russian Text © M.B. Lara, A.P. Rasnitsyn, A.M. Zavattieri, 2014, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 2, pp. 81–89.

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Lara, M.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P. & Zavattieri, A.M. Potrerilloxyela menendezi gen. et sp. nov. from the Late Triassic of Argentina: The oldest representative of Xyelidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) for Americas. Paleontol. J. 48, 182–190 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030114020075

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