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 private collection of M. Baraffe in Paris
Primary reference: A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1994. Les Gomphidae fossiles, un inventaire critique (Odonata: Gomphidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 30:55-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125509: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Araripegomphus cretacicus n. gen. n. sp.
Araripegomphus cretacicus n. gen. n. sp. Nel and Paicheler 1994 true dragonfly |