Chapada do Araripe, Nova Olinda Member (general) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Araripe Plateau, Olindalacerta locality

Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.0° S, 40.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 8.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Nova Olinda Member (Crato Formation), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; fine-grained limestone

• According to Martill (1993), the Crato Formation represents an open body (lake or lagoon) of fresh to saline water surrounded by a rather arid hinterland. Plant remains suggest a cover of ferns, cheirolepidaceous confiers and other gymnosperms, and there was a rich and diverse fauna of insects as well as scorpions, spiders, birds and frogs

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Kitakyushu Museum and Institute of Natural History

Primary reference: S. E. Evans and Y. Yabumoto. 1998. A lizard from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch für Paläontologie und Geologie, Monatshefte 1998:349-364 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115134: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.08.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata -
Olindalacerta brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp.
Olindalacerta brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp. Evans and Yabumoto 1998 squamates
KMNH VP 400,001
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Axelrodichthys sp.1
Axelrodichthys sp.1 Maisey 1986 coelacanth
MSPC-287, held at Universidade Regional do Cariri
Actinopteri
 Gonorhynchiformes -
Dastilbe crandalli2
Dastilbe crandalli2 Jordan 1910
1Brito and Martill 1999; 2Davis and Martill 1999