PBDB Collection

Crato (MfNB collection): Late/Upper Aptian, Brazil

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Chactidae

	Araripescorpius ligabuei Campos 1986	Menon 2007	1 specimen
	MB.A.973
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Protoischnuridae

	Protoischnurus axelrodorum de Carvalho and Lourenço 2001	Menon 2007	3 specimens
	MB.A.971, 972, 974
Arachnida - Araneae - Dipluridae

	Cretadiplura ceara n. gen., n. sp. Selden 2006	Selden et al. 2006	1 specimen
	MB.A.979
Arachnida - Thelyphonida - Thelyphonidae

	Mesoproctus rowlandi Dunlop 1998	Dunlop and Martill 2002	1 specimen
	MB.A.975

	Mesoproctus sp. Dunlop 1998	Dunlop and Martill 2002	1 specimen
	MB.A.1041
	= Mesoproctus rayoli Santana et al. 2024	Santana et al. 2024
Arachnida - Solifugae - Ceromidae

	Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden 1996	Dunlop and Martill 2004	2 specimens
	MB.A 1087, 1088
Arachnida - Acariformes

	Pararainbowia martilli n. gen., n. sp. Dunlop 2007	Dunlop 2007	1 specimen
	MB.A.982
Insecta - Hemiptera - Hydrometridae

	Incertametra santanensis Perez Goodwyn 2002	Perez Goodwyn 2002	1 specimen
	Preliminary no. 108/D116
Insecta - Hemiptera - Palaeontinidae

	Colossocossus giganticus n. sp. Menon and Heads 2007	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.I.2103 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Proscopiidae

	Eoproscopia martilli Heads 2008	Heads 2008	1 specimen
	MB.I 2077 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Schizodactylidae

	Schizodactylus groeningae (Martins-Neto 2007)	Heads and Leuzinger 2011	1 specimen
	MfNB-I.2079 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Mantodea - Santanmantidae

	Santanmantis axelrodi Grimaldi 2003	Hörnig et al. 2017	1 specimen
	MfN MB.I.2068
Insecta - Blattodea

	Meiatermes araripena Krishna 1990	Grimaldi et al. 2008	1 specimen
	ZMHB MBI.2061 (2 measurements)

	Mariconitermes talicei Fontes and Vulcano 1998	Grimaldi et al. 2008	3 specimens
	ZMHB MBI.2062, ?2209, ?2063 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Rafaelianidae

	Rafaelidae indet. Nel et al. 2005	Nel et al. 2005	1 specimen
	replaced by Rafaelianidae
	Specimen in Berlin museum

	Rafaelia minima Nel et al. 2005	Nel et al. 2005	1 specimen
	recombined as Rafaeliana minima
	(3 measurements)
Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Oligoneuriidae

	Colocrus indivicum McCafferty 1990	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.I.2027
Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae

	Cratohexagenites minor n. sp. Staniczek 2007	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.I.2026 (same specimen number as C. longicercus)

	Cratohexagenites longicercus Staniczek 2007	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.I.2026 (same specimen number as C. minor)
Insecta

	Cretereisma sp. Willmann 2007	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.I.2028
Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae

	Wightonia araripina Carle and Wighton 1990	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	D28
Insecta - Odonata - Araripephlebiidae

	Araripephlebia mirabilis Bechly 1998	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.1999.3 MB.I.2058 (old D45)
Insecta - Odonata - Araripegomphidae

	Araripegomphus andreneli Bechly 1998	Martill et al. 2007	1 specimen
	MB.1999.3 MB.I.2057 (old D10) (2 measurements)
Insecta - Odonata - Liupanshaniidae

	Araripeliupanshania annesuseae n. gen., n. sp. Bechly et al. 2001	Bechly et al. 2001	1 specimen
	MB.1999.3 MB.I.2047 (old D58) (3 measurements)
Insecta - Odonata

	? Cretarchistigma essweini Bechly 1998	Martill et al. 2007	2 specimens
	MB.1999.3 MB.I.2055 (old D52), MB.199.3 MB.I.2056 (old C24)
Insecta - Odonata - Thaumatoneuridae

	Euarchistigma marialuiseae Bechly 2007		1 specimen
	MB.1999.3 MB.I.2090 (old no. D29).
see common names

Geography

Country:	Brazil	State/province:	Ceará
Coordinates:	7.1° South, 39.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	8.6° South, 8.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	local area

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Aptian
Age range of interval:	119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Santana	Formation:	Crato
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "carbonate"
Environment:	lacustrine - large	Tectonic setting:	rift

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	adpression
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	medium

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	MfN
Collection method comments: Specimens in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Specimens were presumably purchased or donated.

Metadata

Database number:	122922
Authorizer:	M. Clapham	Enterer:	M. Clapham, J. Karr, A. Benabbas
Modifier:	G. Varnham	Research group:	paleoentomology
Created:	2012-01-07 06:43:33	Last modified:	2022-03-15 07:11:26
Access level:	the public	Released:	2012-01-07 06:43:33
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

34848.

G. Bechly. 2010. Additions to the fossil dragonfly fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Insecta: Odonata). Palaeodiversity 3(Supplement):11-77 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

35206		G. Bechly, A. Nel, X. Martínez-Declòs, E. A. Jarzembowski, R. Coram, D. Martill, G. Fleck, F. Escuillié, M. M. Wisshak and M. Maisch. 2001. A revision and phylogenetic study of Mesozoic Aeshnoptera, with description of numerous new taxa (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 4:1-219 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
53415		J. A. Dunlop. 2007. A large parasitengonid mite (Acari, Erythraeoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Fossil Record 10:91-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49675		J. A. Dunlop and D. M. Martill. 2002. The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 92:325-334 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47429		J. A. Dunlop and D. M. Martill. 2004. Four additional specimens of the fossil camel spider Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden 1996 (Arachnida: Solifugae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9:143-156 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
10536	ETE	J. A. Dunlop and R. Rößler. 2002. The trigonotarbid arachnid Anthracomartus voelkelianus (Anthracomartidae). The Journal of Arachnology 30:211-218 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham]
45425		D. A. Grimaldi, M. S. Engel, and K. Krishna. 2008. The species of Isoptera (Insecta) from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation: a revision. American Museum Novitates 3626:1-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
26790		S. W. Heads. 2008. The first fossil Proscopiidae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Eumastacoidea) with comments on the historical biogeography and evolution of the family. Palaeontology 51(2):499-507 [D. Smith/E. Leckey]
62862		M. K. Hörnig, J. T. Haug, and C. Haug. 2017. An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans. PeerJ 5(e3605):1-19 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
40729		D. M. Martill, G. Bechly, and R. F. Loveridge. 2007. The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World 1-625 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49662		F. Menon. 2007. Higher systematics of scorpions from the Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Palaeontology 50:185-195 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38252		A. Nel, G. Bechly, R. Garrouste, B. Pohl, and F. Escuillié. 2005. A new extraordinary neuropterid family from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil: a new insect order? (Insecta, Neuropterida). Cretaceous Research 26:845-852 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]
11315	ETE	P. J. Perez Goodwyn. 2002. A new genus of water measurer from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation in Brazil (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Hydrometridae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 316:1-9 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]
87091		W. Santana, A. P. Pinheiro, T. A. Silva and D. Lima. 2024. Description of a new fossil Thelyphonida (Arachnida, Uropygi) and further record of Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden, in Selden and Shear, 1996 (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Crato Formation (Aptian/Albian), Araripe Basin, Brazil. PeerJ 12(e16670) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47402		P. A. Selden, F. C. Casado, and M. V. Mesquita. 2006. Mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte, Araripe basin, north-east Brazil. Palaeontology 49:817-826 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]