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

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Repository: Zoologische Staatssammlung München

Primary reference: F. Cassola and K. Werner. 2004. A fossil tiger beetle specimen from the Brazilian Mesozoic: Oxycheilopsis cretacicus n. gen., n. sp. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 94:75-81 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152185: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.11.2013

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