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 class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK)
Primary reference: J. A. Dunlop. 1998. A fossil whipscorpion from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. The Journal of Arachnology 26:291-295 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127034: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 23.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham and Anissa Benabbas
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mesoproctus rowlandi n. gen. n. sp.
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