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
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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
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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
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