Between Nova Olinda and Santana do Cariri (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: CearĂ¡, Brazil (7.0° S, 39.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 7.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: Caupedactylus ybaka housed at the Paleovertebrate Sector of the Department of Geology and Paleontology, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Primary reference: S. W. Salisbury, E. Frey, D. M. Martill and M.-C. Buchy. 2003. A new crocodilian from the Lower Cretaceous Crato of north-eastern Brazil. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie 270(1-3):3-47 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114920: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 25.08.2011, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Tapejaridae
Caupedactylus ybaka n. gen. n. sp.2
Caupedactylus ybaka n. gen. n. sp.2 Kellner 2013 pterosaur
MN 4726-V, Skull, lower jaw and some postcranial elements
 Loricata -
Susisuchus anatoceps n. gen. n. sp. Salisbury et al. 2003 crocodilian
SMNK 3804 PAL - holotype (an incomplete partially articulated skeleton, comprising the skull and mandible; cervical, dorsal, sacral, and caudal vertebrae; pectoral girdle including the right and left forelimbs and osteoderms from the nuchal and dorsal shield)
cf. Araripesuchus sp.1 Price 1959 crocodilian
SMNK PAL 6404 (articulated skeleton with complete skull, axial skeleton, left forelimb and osteoderms); locality of this specimen not clear