Crato (BSP 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

Reposited in the BSP

• Specimens in Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie, Munich

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 123011: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Proterogomphidae
Cordulagomphus tuberculatus1
Cordulagomphus tuberculatus1 Carle and Wighton 1990 true dragonfly
BSPGM C6
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Gomphaeschnaoides betoreti n. sp., "Gomphaeschna obliqua" = Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus
Gomphaeschnaoides betoreti n. sp. Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
BSPGM 11 (old D9)
"Gomphaeschna obliqua" = Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus Wighton 1987 true dragonfly
BSPGM 13
 Zygentoma - Lepismatidae
Lepismatidae indet.2
Lepismatidae indet.2 Latreille 1802 silverfish
BSPG 1998 III/4
1Martill et al. 2007; 2Sturm 1998