PBDB Collection

Crato (ROM 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

Reposited in the ROM

Primary reference: D. A. Grimaldi, M. S. Engel, and K. Krishna. 2008. The species of Isoptera (Insecta) from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation: a revision. American Museum Novitates 3626:1-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140371: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae	"Ponopterix maxima" = Ponopterix axelrodi³ "Ponopterix maxima" = Ponopterix axelrodi³ Vršanský and Grimaldi 1999 winged insect ROM 64639, 64640
Dicondylia -	Raptoblatta waddingtonae n. gen. n. sp.¹, Blattodea indet.² Raptoblatta waddingtonae n. gen. n. sp.¹ Dittmann et al. 2015 winged insect ROM 63698 (AI 514) Blattodea indet.² Latreille 1810 cockroach ROM AI 292
Blattodea - Ectobiidae	"Mesoblattina cf. limai" = Piniblattella limai² "Mesoblattina cf. limai" = Piniblattella limai² Pinto and Purper 1986 cockroach ROM AI 444, AI 3208
Blattodea - Kalotermitidae	Cratokalotermes santanensis Cratokalotermes santanensis Bechly 2007 termite ROM 1764
Blattodea -	Mariconitermes talicei, Meiatermes araripena Mariconitermes talicei Fontes and Vulcano 1998 termite ROM 1767, 1749, ?1754 Meiatermes araripena Krishna 1990 termite ROM 1747a,b,1748a,1750,1751a,b,1759,1761,1762,1765,1766,1770,1774,1777
Blattodea - Cratomastotermitidae	Cratomastotermes wolfschwenningeri Cratomastotermes wolfschwenningeri Bechly 2007 termite ROM 1746, 1755, 1756
Mantodea - Santanmantidae	Santanmantis axelrodi² Santanmantis axelrodi² Grimaldi 2003 mantis ROM AI 1736

¹Dittmann et al. 2015; ²Hörnig et al. 2013; ³Hörnig et al. 2018