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: Specimens in Museum of Kitakyushu.
Primary reference: G. Bechly. 1998. New fossil dragonflies from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-east Brazil (Insecta: Odonata). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 264:1-66 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122926: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dastilbe sp.1 Jordan 1910 | |
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Parawonnacottella araripensis n. gen. n. sp.3
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Apiblatta muratai n. gen. n. sp.4
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Araripechlorogomphus muratai n. gen. n. sp.1
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