Also known as Araripe Plateau, Chapada do Araripe

Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.3° S, 39.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 6.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Missão Velha Formation (Vale do Carirí Group), Early/Lower Cretaceous to Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Age is difficult to constrain sue to lack of diagnostic fossils and lack of horizons suitable for radiometric dating. The formation underlies the Crato formation, so is generally considered to be pre-Aptian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1988

Primary reference: P. M. Brito, R. J. Bertini, D. M. Martill and L. O. Salles. 1994. Vertebrate fauna from the Missão Velha Formation (Lower Cretaceous, N.E. Brazil). Boletim do 3° sobre o Cretáceo do Brasil, Campus de Rio Claro/SP, UNESP 139-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59355: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2006, edited by Mark Bell

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