PBDB Collection

Nova Olinda quarries: Late/Upper Aptian, Brazil

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Araripia florifera n. gen., n. sp. axis, flower Mohr and Eklund 2003
	axes with attached leaves and some with flower buds
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Pipimorpha indet. Ford and Cannatella 1993	Báez et al. 2021	2 individuals
	MPSC-Am 138, MPSC-Am 892

	Primaevorana cratensis Moura et al. 2021	Moura et al. 2021
	GP/2E-9497
Reptilia

	Calanguban alamoi n. gen., n. sp. Simões et al. 2015	Simões et al. 2015	1 specimen
	MN 7234-V - holotype (skull, limbs, dorsal and caudal vertebrae, and body outline)

	Tetrapodophis amplectus n. gen., n. sp. Martill et al. 2015	Martill et al. 2015	1 specimen
	BMMS BK 2-2 - holotype (complete skeleton)

	? Azhdarchidae indet. (Nessov 1984)	Martill and Frey 1999	5 specimens
	SMNK 2342 PAL, partial wing finger
	= ? Tapejaridae indet. Kellner 1989	Unwin and Martill 2007
	MN 6527-V, SMNK PAL 2342, MPSC R-868, MPSC R-771

	Tapejaridae indet. (Kellner 1989)	Unwin and Martill 2007	2 specimens
	SMNK 3830 PAL, partial skeleton

	Thalassodrominae indet. Kellner and Campos 2007	Witton 2008	2 specimens
	MN 4729-V, SMNK PAL 3855

	Aymberedactylus cearensis n. gen., n. sp. Pegas et al. 2016	Pegas et al. 2016	1 specimen
	MN 7596-V - holotype (lower mandible)

	Tapejara navigans n. sp. Frey et al. 2003	Frey et al. 2003	2 specimens
	recombined as Tupandactylus navigans
	SMNK 2344 (holotype), 2343, skulls

	Tapejara imperator n. sp. Campos and Kellner 1997	Campos and Kellner 1997	3 specimens
	recombined as Tupandactylus imperator
	DNPM MCT 1622-R, complete skull. SMNK PAL 2839, skull. Additional privately opened specimen is known
Reptilia - Chaoyangopteridae

	Lacusovagus magnificens n. gen., n. sp. Witton 2008	Witton 2008	1 specimen
	SMNK PAL 4325, incomplete skull
Reptilia

	Ornithocheiridae indet. (Seeley 1870)	Unwin and Martill 2007	6 specimens
	MN 4798-V, tooth. SMNK PAL 3854, postcranial skeleton. MPSC R-739, MPSC R-779, partial wings.

	Arthurdactylus conandoylei n. gen., n. sp. Frey and Martill 1994	Frey and Martill 1994	1 specimen
	SMNK 1132 PAL, skeleton lacking skull

	Brasileodactylus cf. araripensis Kellner 1984	Sayao and Kellner 2000	1 specimen
	MN 4797-V, partial skull
	= Brasileodactylus sp. Kellner 1984	Unwin and Martill 2007
	= ? Barbosania gracilirostris Elgin and Frey 2011	Elgin and Frey 2011

	Ludodactylus sibbicki n. gen., n. sp. Frey et al. 2003	Frey et al. 2003	1 specimen
	SMNK PAL 3828, skull

	Susisuchus anatoceps Salisbury et al. 2003	Figueiredo et al. 2011	1 specimen
	MPSC-R1136 (partially articulated postcranial remains comprising cervical and dorsal vertebrae, bones of the pectoral girdle including the right forelimb, and osteoderms from the dorsal shield); preserved on a limestone plate
Reptilia - Testudines - Araripemydidae

	cf. Araripemys sp. Price 1973	Ribeiro de Oliveira and Kellner 2005	1 specimen
	MN 6745-V, an incomplete left plastron, composed of the hyoplastron and the hypoplastron of the left side

	Araripemys arturi n. sp. Fielding et al. 2005	Fielding et al. 2005	1 specimen
	synonym of Araripemys barretoi
	SMNK-PAL 3979; partial skeleton with associated soft tissues on a slab of laminated, cream-coloured limestone.
see common names

Geography

Country:	Brazil	State/province:	Ceara
Coordinates:	7.1° South, 39.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	8.6° South, 8.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	56 meters
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	Member:	Nova Olinda
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: in the lower 20m of the section

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	planar lamination lime mudstone
Secondary lithology:	mudstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: organic rich mudstones and millimeter-laminated micritic plattenkalk limestones
Environment:	lacustrine - large

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,replaced with pyrite,replaced with limonite
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Articulated whole bodies:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	all macrofossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:	mechanical,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	SMNS

Metadata

Database number:	77891
Authorizer:	D. Smith, P. Mannion, R. Butler, M. Uhen, M. Carrano	Enterer:	E. Leckey, R. Butler, P. Mannion, L. Barcelos, M. Carrano, N. Visalden
Modifier:	G. Varnham	Research group:	paleobotany,paleoentomology
Created:	2008-01-22 08:53:08	Last modified:	2022-03-15 06:59:38
Access level:	the public	Released:	2008-01-22 08:53:08
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

26290.

B. A. R. Mohr and H. Eklund. 2003. Araripia florifera, a magnoliid angiosperm from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation (Brazil). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 126:279-292 [D. Smith/E. Leckey]

Secondary references:

84866		A. M. Báez, P. Muzzopappa, and G. J. B. Moura. 2021. The earliest records of pipimorph frogs from South America (Aptian, Crato Formaton, Brazil): a critical evaluation. Cretaceous Research 121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32111		D. A. Campos and A. W. A. Kellner. 1997. Short note on the first occurrence of Tapejaridae in the Crato Member (Aptian), Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 69:83-87 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
36271		R. A. Elgin and E. Frey. 2011. A new ornithocheirid, Barbosania gracilirostris gen. et sp. nov. (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of NE Brazil. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130(259) [R. Butler/R. Butler/S. Bruning]
41977		S. Fielding, D. M. Martill, and D. Naish. 2005. Solhofen-style soft-tissue preservation in a new species of turtle from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian) of North-East Brazil. Palaeontology 48(6):1301-1310 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
39435		R. G. Figueiredo, J. K. R. Moreira, A. A. F. Saraiva and A. W. A. Kellner. 2011. Description of a new specimen of Susisuchus anatoceps (Crocodylomorpha: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Crato Formation (Santana Group) with comments on Neosuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S273-S288 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
32077		E. Frey and D. M. Martill. 1994. A new pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch für Paläontologie und Geologie, Abhandlungen 194:379-412 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
32115		E. Frey, D. M. Martill, and M.-C. Buchy. 2003. A new crested ornithocheirid from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil and the unusual death of an unusual pterosaur. In E. Buffetaut, J.-M. Mazin (eds.), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217:55-63 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
32116		E. Frey, D. M. Martill, and M.-C. Buchy. 2003. A new species of tapejarid pterosaur with soft-tissue head crest. In E. Buffetaut, J.-M. Mazin (eds.), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217:65-72 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
32113		D. M. Martill and E. Frey. 1999. A possible azhdarchid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian) of northeast Brazil. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:315-318 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
55874		D. M. Martill, H. Tischlinger, and N. R. Longrich. 2015. A four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana. Science 349:416-419 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
84391		P.H.A.G. Moura, F.R. Costa, L.E. Anelli and I. Nunes. 2021. A new genus of fossil frog (Anura) from lower Cretaceous deposits in South America. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences 93(e20191560):1-14 [P. Mannion/L. Barcelos]
63770		R. V. Pegas, M. E. C. Leal, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2016. A Basal Tapejarine (Pterosauria; Pterodactyloidea; Tapejaridae) from the Crato Formation, Early Cretaceous of Brazil. Plos One [M. Uhen/N. Visalden]
41979		G. Ribeiro de Oliveira and A. W. A. Kellner. 2005. Note on a plastron (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Member, Santana Formation, Brazil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63(3):523-528 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
32114		J. M. Sayao and A. W. A. Kellner. 2000. Description of a pterosaur rostrum from the Crato Member, Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional, Geologia 54:1-8 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
52646		T. R. Simões, M. W. Caldwell, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(7):601-614 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
32118		D. M. Unwin and D. M. Martill. 2007. Pterosaurs of the Crato Formation. In D. M. Martill, G. Bechly, R. F. Loveridge (eds.), The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 475-524 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
32119		M. P. Witton. 2008. A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian?) of Brazil. Palaeontology 51:1289-1300 [R. Butler/R. Butler]