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

Primary reference: D. Santos, I. S. Carvalho, and G. C. Ribeiro. 2022. A cranefly rendezvous: The highest known Mesozoic diversity of Tipulidae (Insecta: Diptera) in the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of NE Brazil. Cretaceous Research 142(105372) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228900: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Leptotarsus velosoi n. sp., Leptotarsus acciolii n. sp., Leptotarsus petrii n. sp.
Leptotarsus velosoi n. sp. Santos et al. 2022 crane fly
CCNH 83
Leptotarsus acciolii n. sp. Santos et al. 2022 crane fly
CCNH 417
Leptotarsus petrii n. sp. Santos et al. 2022 crane fly
CCNH 374
 Odonata - Araripechlorogomphidae
Araripechlorogomphus muratai
Araripechlorogomphus muratai Bechly and Ueda 2002 true dragonfly
CCNH 800