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 SMNS

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart. Specimens were presumably purchased or donated.

Primary reference: V. N. Makarkin and F. Menon. 2007. First record of fossil "rapismatid-like" Ithonidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 28:743-753 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122557: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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