Crato (MCSNM 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 at Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano

Primary reference: A. Nel, G. Bechly, E. Jarzembowski and X. Martínez-Delclòs. 1998. A revision of the fossil petalurid dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Petalurida). Paleontologia Lombarda 10:1-68 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125508: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.03.2012, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Cretapetaluridae
Cretapetalura brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp.
Cretapetalura brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp. Nel et al. 1998 true dragonfly
MCSNM i9562
 Neuroptera - Cratosmylidae
Araripenymphes seldeni1
Araripenymphes seldeni1 Menon et al. 2005 lacewing
MCSNM iQ563
 Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
"Lethocerus vetus n. sp." = Lethocerus placidus3
"Lethocerus vetus n. sp." = Lethocerus placidus3 Zamboni et al. 2002 giant water bug
MCSNM i9560
 Hemiptera - Hydrometridae
Cretaceometra brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp.2
Cretaceometra brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Nel and Popov 2000 marsh treader
MCSNM i9556
1Myskowiak et al. 2016; 2Nel and Popov 2000; 3Nel and Waller 2006