Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.2° S, 39.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of Brazil, in Fortaleza-CE (SGBFO)

Primary reference: L. C. B. Freitas, A. P. Rasnitsyn, G. J. B. Moura and M. Mendes. 2020. New species of Myrmicium Westwood (Psedosiricidae = Myrmiciidae: Hymenoptera, Insecta) from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) of the Araripe Basin, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 92(e20200479) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213661: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2020

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