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 Cristian Pella

Primary reference: A. Nel and C. Pella. 2020. The oldest water scorpion discovered in the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation (Hemiptera: Nepidae). Palaeoentomology 3:301-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228749: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2023

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