Crato (NSMT 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

Collection methods: Specimens in National Science Museum Tokyo.

Primary reference: G. Bechly. 1998. New fossil dragonflies from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-east Brazil (Insecta: Odonata). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 264:1-66 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Insecta
 Neuroptera - Rafaelianidae
"Rafaelia minima" = Rafaeliana minima4
"Rafaelia minima" = Rafaeliana minima4 Nel et al. 2005 lacewing
NSMT B124
 Odonata - Araripephlebiidae
Araripephlebia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Araripephlebia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. Bechly 1998 true dragonfly
NSMT 49
 Odonata - Araripegomphidae
Araripegomphus andreneli
Araripegomphus andreneli Bechly 1998 true dragonfly
NSMT 31, 47, 1006
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
"Gomphaeschna obliqua" = Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus1, Paramorbaeschna araripensis1
"Gomphaeschna obliqua" = Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus1 Wighton 1987 true dragonfly
NSMT 54
Paramorbaeschna araripensis1 Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
NSMT 29
 Odonata - Hemiphlebiidae
Parahemiphlebia sp.3, Parahemiphlebia cretacica2
Parahemiphlebia sp.3 Jarzembowski et al. 1998 greenling
NSMT 563 and a further specimen
Parahemiphlebia cretacica2 Jarzembowski et al. 1998 greenling
NSMT no 39
 Odonata -
? Cretarchistigma essweini
? Cretarchistigma essweini Bechly 1998 damselfly
NSMT 51, 1007
 Odonata - Thaumatoneuridae
Euarchistigma atrophium
Euarchistigma atrophium Carle and Wighton 1990 damselfly
NSMT 46
1Bechly et al. 2001; 2Jarzembowski et al. 1998; 3Martill et al. 2007; 4Nel et al. 2005