Crato (Murata collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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

Collected by Masayuki Murata

• Specimens in private collection of Masayuki Murata (Kyoto, Japan), given MURJ numbers.

Primary reference: G. Bechly. 2010. Additions to the fossil dragonfly fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Insecta: Odonata). Palaeodiversity 3(Supplement):11-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122924: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Ephemeroptera -
Ephemeroidea indet.2
Ephemeroidea indet.2 Latreille 1810 mayfly
 Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae
Cratohexagenites longicercus n. gen. n. sp.2
Cratohexagenites longicercus n. gen. n. sp.2 Staniczek 2007 mayfly
MURJ 447
 Ephemerida -
Cretereisma sp.2
Cretereisma sp.2 Willmann 2007 mayfly
MURJ 51
 Odonata - Proterogomphidae
Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) michaeli n. sp.2, Cordulagomphus winkelhoferi
Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) michaeli n. sp.2 Bechly 2007 true dragonfly
MURJ 514 (old C14)
Cordulagomphus winkelhoferi Bechly 2007 true dragonfly
MURJ 513 (old C20)
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Anomalaeschna berndschusteri n. gen. n. sp.1, Paramorbaeschna araripensis1
Anomalaeschna berndschusteri n. gen. n. sp.1 Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
MURJ 515 (old G22)
Paramorbaeschna araripensis1 Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
MURJ 518
 Odonata - Liupanshaniidae
Araripeliupanshania annesuseae1
Araripeliupanshania annesuseae1 Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
 Blattodea - Liberiblattinidae
Liberiblattinidae indet.3
Liberiblattinidae indet.3 Vršanský 2002 cockroach
 Hymenoptera - Scoliidae
Cretoscolia brasiliensis n. sp.2
Cretoscolia brasiliensis n. sp.2 Osten 2007 hairy flower wasp
1Bechly et al. 2001; 2Martill et al. 2007; 3Vršanský et al. 2019