Where: CearĂ¡, 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)
• Staatlisches Museum fur Naturkunde, Karlsruhe. Specimens were presumably purchased or donated.
Primary reference: V. N. Makarkin and F. Menon. 2007. First record of fossil "rapismatid-like" Ithonidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 28:743-753 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
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Progomphaeschnaoides ursulae n. gen. n. sp.3
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Principiala incerta n. gen. n. sp.
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Araripeleon alphonsei n. gen. n. sp.4
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"Rafaelia minima n. sp." = Rafaeliana minima5
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Megapsychoda araripina n. gen. n. sp.1
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Arachnida | |
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Dinodiplura ambulacra n. gen. n. sp.6
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