Crato, Pedra Branca Quarry (MCT collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Formerly considered to be Crato Member of Santana Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museu de Ciências da Terra-Serviço Geológico do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MCT/CPRM-RJ)

Primary reference: D. A. Moura-Júnior, S. M. Scheffler, F. F. F. Moreira, A. Nel, and G. Mejdalani. 2020. First record of a shore bug (Insecta, Hemiptera, Saldidae) from Gondwana. Journal of Paleontology 95:133-140 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216852: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
Neponymphes godoii Zamboni 2001 giant water bug
MCT 6955-I, 6952-I, 6953-I, 6954-I
 Hemiptera - Saldidae
Olindasalda gondwanica n. gen. n. sp.
Olindasalda gondwanica n. gen. n. sp. Moura-Júnior et al. 2020 shore bug
MCT 6959-1