Pedreira Três Irmãos quarry, Crato (UFABC CCNH collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Tres Irmaos

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: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil

Primary reference: R. J. P. Machado, A. V. L. Freitas, and G. C. Ribeiro. 2020. A new giant species of the remarkable extinct family Kalligrammatidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 120(104724) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217013: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Cretobibio rasnitsyni n. sp.4
Cretobibio rasnitsyni n. sp.4 Lukashevich et al. 2021 march fly
CCNH-139
 Diptera - Tabanidae
Cratotabanus cearensis n. sp.2, Cratotabanus stonemyomorphus2
Cratotabanus cearensis n. sp.2 Carmo and Sampronha 2022 horse fly
CCNH 567
Cratotabanus stonemyomorphus2 Martins-Neto and Kucera-Santos 1994 horse fly
CCNH 141
 Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Cratoaeschnidium martinsnetoi n. gen. n. sp.5
Cratoaeschnidium martinsnetoi n. gen. n. sp.5 Nel et al. 2022 small darner
CCNH 445
 Odonata - Araripegomphidae
Araripegomphus ismari n. sp.6
Araripegomphus ismari n. sp.6 Nel and Ribeiro 2022 true dragonfly
CCNH 218
 Odonata - Liupanshaniidae
Brasiliupanshania cretacica n. gen. n. sp.7
Brasiliupanshania cretacica n. gen. n. sp.7 Ribeiro and Nel 2023 true dragonfly
CCNH 568
 Neuroptera - Kalligrammatidae
Makarkinia irmae n. sp.
Makarkinia irmae n. sp. Machado et al. 2020 lacewing
CCNH-103
 Hymenoptera - Crabronidae
Exallopterus spectabilis n. gen. n. sp.8
Exallopterus spectabilis n. gen. n. sp.8 Rosa and Melo 2022 apoid wasp
CCNH-61, 62
 Blattodea -
Meiatermes sp.1, Meiatermes cretacicus n. sp.1
Meiatermes sp.1 Lacasa Ruiz and Martínez-Delclòs 1986 termite
CCNH 76, 77 ,78
Meiatermes cretacicus n. sp.1 Bezerra et al. 2021 termite
CCNH 73
 Phasmatodea -
Araripephasma reliquum3
Araripephasma reliquum3 Mendes et al. 2019 stick insect
CCNH-105
1Bezerra et al. 2021; 2Carmo et al. 2022; 3Ghirotto et al. 2022; 4Lukashevich et al. 2021; 5Nel et al. 2022; 6Nel and Ribeiro 2022; 7Ribeiro and Nel 2023; 8Rosa et al. 2022