ammonites
Crato (MNHN collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Ceara, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 7.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Crato Member (Santana Formation), 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

Reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Specimens were presumably purchased or donated.

Primary reference: A. Nel, X. Delclos, and A. Hutin. 2005. Mesozoic chrysopid-like Planipennia: a phylogenetic approach (Insecta: Neuroptera). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 41:29-69 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122553: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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