Mina do Demar, Crato (CAV collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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 Academico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, Brazil (CAV)

Primary reference: A. P. Storari, G. L. Osés, D. S. Almeida-Lima, M. A. Rizzutto, R. A. M. Bantim, F. J. Lima, T. Rodrigues and J. M. Sayão. 2024. Exceptionally well-preserved orthopteran proventriculi from the Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 133(104737) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232645: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Araripegryllus cf. femininus Martins-Neto 1991 true crickets
CAV 0012-I