Crato, quarry complex 2 km south of Nova Olinda (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lime mudstone and mudstone

• organic rich mudstones and millimeter-laminated micritic plattenkalk limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite

Reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: mechanical,

• All the fossils described herein were obtain from local workers and were collected from several stone quarries

Primary reference: F. Menon, S. W. Heads, and D. M. Martill. 2005. New Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Cicadomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 26:837-844 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119444: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 26.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Palaeontinidae
Baeocossus finchae n. gen. n. sp.
Baeocossus finchae n. gen. n. sp. Menon et al. 2005 true bug
SMNS 65501