Crato (LEIUG collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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: Specimens in Geology Department, University of Leicester

Primary reference: G. Fleck and A. Nel. 2003. Revision of the Mesozoic family Aeschnidiidae (Odonata: Anisoptera). Zoologica 153:1-170 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123012: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Gomphaeschnaoides magnus1 Bechly et al. 2001 true dragonfly
LEIUG 113603 (Martill 1993 Pl 8, fig 2)
 Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Santanoptera gabbotti n. gen. n. sp.2
Santanoptera gabbotti n. gen. n. sp.2 Martill and Nel 1996 small darner
LEIUG 1155858