Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Laminated limestone from the Crato Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Joan Josa

• The specimen will be deposited provisionally in the Departament d’Estratigrafia i Paleontologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Primary reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and X. Martínez-Delclòs. 1999. New Cretaceous Scoliidae (Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain and Brazil. Cretaceous Research 20:767-772 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123015: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2012

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