Barbalha (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Crato

Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.3° S, 39.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 7.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

• either an "extensive lake" or "a thermally stratified lagoon" in "a small intracratonic basin"
• "laminated limestones interbedded between fine-to-medium– grained siliciclastics"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• Museum of Paleontology at Santana do Cariri collection

•most of the specimens were collected by "local workers" at mines

Primary reference: A. M. Baez, G. J. B. Moura, and R. O. Gómez. 2009. Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil: implications for the early divergence of neobatrachians. Cretaceous Research 30(4):829-846 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92097: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia -
? Pipimorpha indet., Arariphrynus placidoi n. gen. n. sp., Eurycephalella alcinae n. gen. n. sp., Cratia gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
? Pipimorpha indet. Ford and Cannatella 1993 frog
Arariphrynus placidoi n. gen. n. sp. Leal and Brito 2006 frog
Eurycephalella alcinae n. gen. n. sp. Baez et al. 2009 frog
Cratia gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Baez et al. 2009 frog