Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)
• Exact stratigraphic position is uncertain, but possibly from the basal layers of the biomicritic limestone package of the Crato Formation (Pinheiro et al. 2011).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected in 2009
Collection methods: quarrying
• CPCA: Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas da Chapada do Araripe (Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral, Crato, Brazil)
Primary reference: F. L. Pinheiro, D. C. Fortier, C. L. Schultz, J. Artur, F.G. De Andrade and R. A.M. Bantim. 2011. New information on Tupandactylus imperator, with comments on the relationships of Tapejaridae (Pterosauria). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(3):567-580 [R. Butler/R. Butler/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102227: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Tupandactylus imperator Campos and Kellner 1997 pterosaur CPCA 3590, incomplete skull and lower jaw with associated soft tissues
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