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 Jura Museum-Eichstatt
Primary reference: G. Bechly, A. Nel, X. Martínez-Declòs, E. A. Jarzembowski, R. Coram, D. Martill, G. Fleck, F. Escuillié, M. M. Wisshak and M. Maisch. 2001. A revision and phylogenetic study of Mesozoic Aeshnoptera, with description of numerous new taxa (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 4:1-219 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123010: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Insecta | |
Gomphaeschnaoides magnus n. sp., Gomphaeschnaoides petersi n. sp., Progomphaeschnaoides staniczeki n. sp.
Gomphaeschnaoides magnus n. sp. Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
Gomphaeschnaoides petersi n. sp. Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
Progomphaeschnaoides staniczeki n. sp. Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly | |