Crato (Manchester 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

When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Manchester Museum

Primary reference: F. Menon. 2007. Higher systematics of scorpions from the Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Palaeontology 50:185-195 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153606: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Protoischnuridae
Protoischnurus axelrodorum de Carvalho and Lourenço 2001 scorpion
MM L12484