Crato (Sennlaub collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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: surface (in situ)

• Repository: private collection of Markus Sennlaub, to be deposited in a Brazilian museum

Primary reference: A. Nel and C. Jouault. 2021. New grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Elcanidae, Locustopsidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation suggest a biome homogeneity in central Gondwana. Historical Biology 34:2070-2078 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227841: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Araripephlebiidae
Valdiphlebia sennlaubi n. gen. n. sp.3
Valdiphlebia sennlaubi n. gen. n. sp.3 Nel and Pouillon 2020 true dragonfly
Sennlaub 07.033
 Hymenoptera - Siricidae
Cratosirex sennlaubi n. gen. n. sp.2
Cratosirex sennlaubi n. gen. n. sp.2 Jouault and Nel 2020 horntail
Sennlaub 18.054
 Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae
Prosyntexis gouleti1
Prosyntexis gouleti1 Sharkey 1990 stem sawfly
Sennlaub 18022
 Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Pseudoacrida sennlaubi n. sp.
Pseudoacrida sennlaubi n. sp. Nel and Jouault 2021 grasshopper
Sennlaub 16049
 Orthoptera - Elcanidae
Cratoelcana rasnitsyni n. sp.
Cratoelcana rasnitsyni n. sp. Nel and Jouault 2021 grasshopper
Sennlaub 13068
1Jouault and Nel 2021; 2Jouault et al. 2020; 3Nel and Pouillon 2020