Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Aetalionidae
Tremembaetalion Martins-Neto, 1998
Selected references
Martins-Neto 1998a
Overview
The fossil genus Tremembaetalion is known from a single specimen of T. minutum Martins-Neto found in pirobetuminous shales of the Tremembé Formation, Taubaté Basin, Oligocene of São Paulo State, Brazil. Tremembaetalion is of uncertain position (incertae sedis) within the family Aetalionidae.
Taxon images
Tremembaetalion
1.Tremembraetalion minutum
2.Tremembraetalion minutum
Distribution
Neotropical region: Tremembé Formation, Taubaté Basin, State of São Paulo, Brazil.
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Diagnostic characters
Similar to Aetalion, but head triangular with eyes small and proeminent.
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz and Mark J. Rothschild, 23 August 2011.
