Crato (Ulster Museum coll) (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 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

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Chresmodidae
Chresmoda neotropica Engel and Heads 2008 winged insect
UMB K25547
Arachnida
 Thelyphonida - Thelyphonidae
Mesoproctus rowlandi n. gen. n. sp.
Mesoproctus rowlandi n. gen. n. sp. Dunlop 1998 whip scorpion
UMB K28006