Also known as Araripe Plateau, Olindalacerta locality
Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.0° S, 40.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 8.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Nova Olinda Member (Crato Formation), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; fine-grained limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Kitakyushu Museum and Institute of Natural History
Primary reference: S. E. Evans and Y. Yabumoto. 1998. A lizard from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch für Paläontologie und Geologie, Monatshefte 1998:349-364 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 115134: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.08.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Olindalacerta brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp.
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Actinopteri | |
Dastilbe crandalli2 Jordan 1910 |