Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-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: Repository: Laboratory of Paleontology (Laboratório de Paleontologia) of the Federal University of Ceará (Universidade Federal do Ceará),
Primary reference: M. Mendes, S. M. O. Lopes de Vasconcelos, and F. I. Bezerra Oliveira. 2019. A new fossil stick grasshopper (Proscopioidea: Proscopiidae) from the Crato Formation of Brazil. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ 42:437-443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203297: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Eoproscopia reliquum n. sp." = Araripephasma reliquum
"Eoproscopia reliquum n. sp." = Araripephasma reliquum Mendes et al. 2019 stick insect LP/UFC CRT 2698
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