Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Synonym: Cratozeunerella nordestina Martins-Neto 1998

Full reference: R. G. Martins-Neto. 1998. A new genus of the family Locustopsidae (Insecta, Caelifera) in the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, northeast Brazil). Revista Española de Paleontologia 13:133-138

Belongs to Cratozeunerella according to R. G. Martins-Neto 1998

See also Martins-Neto 2003

Sister taxa: Cratozeunerella amedegnatoi, Cratozeunerella godoii, Cratozeunerella nervosa, Cratozeunerella soaresi, Cratozeunerella titanella

Type specimens:

• Cratozeunerella neotropica: UnG-030, a tegmen. Its type locality is Crato, Tatajuba farm, Araripe Basin, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large limestone in the Crato Formation of Brazil.
• Cratozeunerella nordestina: UnG-031, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato, Tatajuba farm, Araripe Basin, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large limestone in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Crato, Tatajuba farm, Araripe Basin

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.