Crato (UERJ collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Ceara, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-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 limestone

• a heterolithic clastic/carbonate sequence of lacustrine, lagoonal and possibly deltaic facies

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collection methods: Repository: Departamento do Zoologia of the Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Primary reference: G.J. Field and D.M. Martill. 2017. Unusual soft tissue preservation in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) crocodile cf. Susisuchus from the Crato Formation of north east Brazil. Cretaceous Research 75:179-192 [M. Uhen/A. Kourmadas]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190135: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Alexander Kourmadas on 29.11.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Susisuchus sp.
Susisuchus sp. Salisbury et al. 2003 crocodilian
UERJ-PMB R07, articulated thoracic vertebrae, disarticulated lumbar vertebrae, four articulated limbs, and some degree of soft tissue tissue preservation