Crato (ISEA Krakow collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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

Insecta
 Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Eoptychoptera braziliana n. sp. Krzemiński et al. 2015 phantom crane fly
ISEA I-F/MP/3/1622/14
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Leptotarsus ribeiroi n. sp. Krzemiński et al. 2017 crane fly
ISEA MP/3554
Leptotarsus lukashevichae Ribeiro et al. 2015 crane fly
ISEA MP/3552, 3553
Leptotarsus grimaldii Ribeiro and Lukashevich 2014 crane fly
ISEA MP/3551