Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum Institute of Systematics & Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Science, Kraków.
Primary reference: W. Krzemiński, I. Kania, and E. Lukashevich. 2015. The first South American record of fossil Eoptychopterinae (Ptychopteridae, Diptera) from Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation. Cretaceous Research 52:548-555 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164499: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eoptychoptera braziliana n. sp.
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