Anthracoblattina mendesi Pinto et Sedor (Blattodea, Phyloblattidae): the most completely preserved South American Palaeozoic cockroach

An abundant and diverse fossil record, encompassing some specimens with exceptional preservation, identifies the Campaleo outcrop in the earliest Permian marine Lontras Shale of the Parana Basin, in the northern uplands of State of Santa Catarina, Brazil as a Carboniferous-Permian fossillagerstatte. Among others, a relatively rich entomofauna was recently discovered in pyrite-rich black shales, yielding several exceptionally preserved, partly...