east of Simoes, Araripe Basin: Albian, Brazil
collected 2005
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Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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1 specimen |
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| SMNK PAL 6414, fragment of proximal right humerus lacking the humeral head |
| see common names |
| Country: | Brazil |
State/province: | Piaui |
| Coordinates: |
7.6° South, 40.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.1° South, 1.9° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Albian |
| Age range of interval: | 113.2 - 100.5 m.y. ago |
| Geological group: | Araripe |
Formation: | Exu |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: mid Albian age suggested on the basis of palynomorphs; however, could be somewhat younger |
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection dates: | 2005 |
| Collection method comments: SMNK: Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe |
| Also known as: | Chapada do Araripe |
| Database number: | 89973 |
| Authorizer: | R. Butler |
Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano |
Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-06-22 08:11:44 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2009-06-22 08:11:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 30128. | | D. M. Martill. 2008. First pterosaur remains from the Exu Formation (Cretaceous) of the Araripe Basin, Brazil. Zitteliana B 28:243-248 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |