Crato (INHSP 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 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Repository: Illinois Natural History Survey Paleontology Collection, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Some specimens repatriated to Brazil, at URM Herbarium at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife.

Primary reference: V. N. Makarkin, S. W. Heads, and S. Wedmann. 2017. Taxonomic study of the Cretaceous lacewing family Babinskaiidae (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontoidea: Nymphidoidae), with description of new taxa. Cretaceous Research 78:149-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186591: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Agaricomycetes
 Agaricales -
Gondwanagaricites magnificus n. gen. n. sp.1
Gondwanagaricites magnificus n. gen. n. sp.1 Heads et al. 2017 gilled mushroom
URM-88000
Insecta
 Neuroptera - Myrmeleontidae
Pseudonymphes ? araripensis3
Pseudonymphes ? araripensis3 Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989 antlion
INHSP 1526
 Neuroptera - Myrmeleontoidae
Caririneura macrothoracica n. sp.3, Araripeneura ? crassatella3, Araripeneura regia3, Cratoneura minor n. sp.3, Cratoneura dividens3
Caririneura macrothoracica n. sp.3 Makarkin et al. 2018 lacewing
INHSP 1525
Araripeneura ? crassatella3 Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1997 lacewing
INHSP 1506
Araripeneura regia3 Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989 lacewing
INHSP 1763
Cratoneura minor n. sp.3 Makarkin et al. 2018 lacewing
INHSP 1523
Cratoneura dividens3 Martins-Neto 1994 lacewing
INHSP 1522
 Neuroptera - Babinskaiidae
Parababinskaia elegans n. gen. n. sp.
Parababinskaia elegans n. gen. n. sp. Makarkin et al. 2017 lacewing
INHSP 1508
 Neuroptera - Nymphidae
? Olindanymphes headsi n. sp.2
? Olindanymphes headsi n. sp.2 Makarkin 2022 split-footed lacewing
INHSP 1510
1Heads et al. 2017; 2Makarkin 2022; 3Makarkin et al. 2018