PBDB Collection

Crato (SMNK collection): Late Aptian, Brazil

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Insecta - Odonata

	? Cretarchistigma essweini Bechly 1998	Bechly 1998	1 specimen
Insecta - Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae

	Progomphaeschnaoides ursulae n. gen., n. sp. Bechly et al. 2001	Bechly et al. 2001	1 specimen
	SMNK 2357 PAL (2 measurements)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Ithonidae

	Principiala incerta n. gen., n. sp. Makarkin and Menon 2007		1 specimen
	SMNK PAL 5352 (3 measurements)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Palaeoleontidae

	Araripeleon alphonsei n. gen., n. sp. Millet and Nel 2010	Millet and Nel 2010	1 specimen
	SMNK 2358 PAL (2 measurements)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Rafaelianidae

	Rafaelia minima n. sp. Nel et al. 2005	Nel et al. 2005	1 specimen
	SMNK 2359 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

	Megapsychoda araripina n. gen., n. sp. Azar and Nel 2002	Azar and Nel 2002	1 specimen
	SMNK 2363 (2 measurements)
Arachnida - Araneae - Dipluridae

	Dinodiplura ambulacra n. gen., n. sp. Selden 2006	Selden et al. 2006	1 specimen
	SMNK PAL 3995
Arachnida - Solifugae - Ceromidae

	Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden 1996	Selden and Shear 1996	1 specimen
	SMNK PAL 1268
see common names

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

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

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

Collection methods:	surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Staatlisches Museum fur Naturkunde, Karlsruhe. Specimens were presumably purchased or donated.

48318		D. Azar and A. Nel. 2002. New Cretaceous psychodid flies from Lebanese amber and Santana Formation (Chapada do Araripe, Brazil) (Diptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 38:253-262 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
35362		G. Bechly. 1998. New fossil dragonflies from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-east Brazil (Insecta: Odonata). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 264:1-66 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
48663		J. Millet and A. Nel. 2010. A new myrmeleontoid genus from the Crato Formation of Northeast Brazil (Lower Cretaceous) (Insecta: Neuroptera: Palaeoleontidae). Zootaxa 2353:49-54 [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]
9324		P. A. Selden and W. A. Shear. 1996. The first mesozoic Solifugae (Arachnida), from the Cretaceous of Brazil, and a redescription of the Palaeozoic Solifuge. Palaeontology 39(3):583-604 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/A. Kinchloe]