Crato, quarry complex 2 km south of Nova Olinda: Late Aptian, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Palaeontinidae
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Baeocossus finchae n. gen., n. sp.
Menon et al. 2005
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| SMNS 65501 (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Ceará |
| Coordinates: | 7.1° South, 39.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° South, 2.6° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 56 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 119.57 - 113.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Santana | Formation: | Crato | Member: | Nova Olinda |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
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 | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with pyrite,replaced with limonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SMNS |
| Collection method comments: All the fossils described herein were obtain from local workers and were collected from several stone quarries | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 119444 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2011-10-26 18:06:18 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-26 18:06:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38323. | F. Menon, S. W. Heads, and D. M. Martill. 2005. New Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Cicadomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 26:837-844 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] |