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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mesoblattina cf. limai" = Piniblattella limai2
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Meiatermes araripena Krishna 1990 termite ROM 1747a,b,1748a,1750,1751a,b,1759,1761,1762,1765,1766,1770,1774,1777
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"Ponopterix maxima" = Ponopterix axelrodi3
"Ponopterix maxima" = Ponopterix axelrodi3 Vršanský and Grimaldi 1999 winged insect ROM 64639, 64640
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Raptoblatta waddingtonae n. gen. n. sp.1
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