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: Repository: Jiří Háva, Private Entomological Laboratory & Collection (JHAC)

Primary reference: J. Háva. 2022. The oldest fossil record of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Euroasian Entomological Journal 21:164-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226882: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2022

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