Crato (INHSP 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

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Repository: Illinois Natural History Survey Paleontology Collection, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Some specimens repatriated to Brazil, at URM Herbarium at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife.

Primary reference: V. N. Makarkin, S. W. Heads, and S. Wedmann. 2017. Taxonomic study of the Cretaceous lacewing family Babinskaiidae (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontoidea: Nymphidoidae), with description of new taxa. Cretaceous Research 78:149-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186591: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Neuroptera - Myrmeleontidae
Pseudonymphes ? araripensis3
Pseudonymphes ? araripensis3 Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989 antlion
INHSP 1526
 Neuroptera - Babinskaiidae
Parababinskaia elegans n. gen. n. sp.
Parababinskaia elegans n. gen. n. sp. Makarkin et al. 2017 lacewing
INHSP 1508
 Neuroptera - Myrmeleontoidae
Araripeneura ? crassatella3, Araripeneura regia3, Caririneura macrothoracica n. sp.3, Cratoneura minor n. sp.3, Cratoneura dividens3
Araripeneura ? crassatella3 Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1997 lacewing
INHSP 1506
Araripeneura regia3 Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989 lacewing
INHSP 1763
Caririneura macrothoracica n. sp.3 Makarkin et al. 2018 lacewing
INHSP 1525
Cratoneura minor n. sp.3 Makarkin et al. 2018 lacewing
INHSP 1523
Cratoneura dividens3 Martins-Neto 1994 lacewing
INHSP 1522
 Neuroptera - Nymphidae
? Olindanymphes headsi n. sp.2
? Olindanymphes headsi n. sp.2 Makarkin 2022 split-footed lacewing
INHSP 1510
Agaricomycetes
 Agaricales -
Gondwanagaricites magnificus n. gen. n. sp.1
Gondwanagaricites magnificus n. gen. n. sp.1 Heads et al. 2017 gilled mushroom
URM-88000
1Heads et al. 2017; 2Makarkin 2022; 3Makarkin et al. 2018