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75 relations: Age (geology), Albian, Amphibian, Aptian, Araripe Basin, Araripe manakin, Araripenymphes, Araucaria, Arthurdactylus, Atlantic Ocean, Avialae, Aymberedactylus, Belonostomus, Bird, Brachyphyllum, Brasileodactylus, Brazil, Calamopleurus, Calanguban, Caytoniales, Ceará, Chapada do Araripe, Cladocyclus, Coxoplectoptera, Cratia, Cratoavis, Crocodylomorpha, Dastilbe, Dinosaur, Dragonfly, Early Cretaceous, Enantiornithes, Eolepidopterigoidea, Ephedra, Eurycephalella, Fish, Flora, Fossil, Geological formation, Gracilepteryx, Ichthyodectidae, Incertae sedis, Insect, Ithonidae, Lacusovagus, Lagerstätte, Lepidotes, Ludodactylus, Makarkinia, Megalosauroidea, ..., Netoxena, Neuropterida, Nymphidae, Odonata, Paleontology, Pernambuco, Phosphorite, Pipoidea, Principiala, Psamateia, Pterosaur, Rafaelia, Santana Formation, Santanichthys, Soil, Squamata, Stratum, Susisuchus, Tapejaridae, Taphonomy, Tetrapodophis, Tupandactylus, Tupuxuara, Undopterix, Weathering. Expand index (25 more) »
Age (geology)
A geologic age is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an epoch into smaller parts.
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Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Araripe Basin
The Araripe Basin is a drainage basin covering in Ceará and Pernambuco states of northeastern Brazil.
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Araripe manakin
The Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni) is a critically endangered bird from the family of manakins (Pipridae).
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Araripenymphes
Araripenymphes is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Nymphidae known from fossils found in South America.
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Araucaria
Araucaria (original pronunciation) is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae.
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Arthurdactylus
Arthurdactylus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of northeastern Brazil.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Avialae
Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade of flying dinosaurs containing their only living representatives, the birds.
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Aymberedactylus
Aymberedactylus (meaning "small lizard finger") is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil.
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Belonostomus
Belonostomus (meaning "big long mouth") or Diphyodus (meaning "double tooth") is a genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that was described by Louis Agassiz in 1844.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Brachyphyllum
Brachyphyllum is an extinct genus of plants belonging to the family Araucariaceae.
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Brasileodactylus
Brasileodactylus a genus of pterosaur from the Aptian (Early Cretaceous), Lower Santana formation of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Calamopleurus
Calamopleurus is an extinct genus of bowfins, comprising three species: C. cylindricus and C. mawsoni from Brazil and C. africanus from Africa.
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Calanguban
Calanguban is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of South America.
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Caytoniales
The Caytoniales (Figs. 1-2) are an extinct order of seed plants known from fossils collected throughout the Mesozoic Era, specifically in the late Triassic to Maastrichtian period, around.
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Ceará
Ceará (locally in Ceará or in Northeast Region of Brazil the pronunciation is) is one of the 27 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast.
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Chapada do Araripe
The Chapada do Araripe, also known as the Serra do Araripe, is a chapada (plateau) in northeastern Brazil.
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Cladocyclus
Cladocyclus is an extinct genus of Ichthyodectidae.
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Coxoplectoptera
Coxoplectoptera or "chimera wings" is a primitive, extinct order of winged insects containing one family, Mickoleitiidae, discovered in 2007.
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Cratia
Cratia is an extinct frog which existed in Brazil during the lower Cretaceous period.
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Cratoavis
Cratoavis is a genus of enantiornithine birds.
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Crocodylomorpha
Crocodylomorpha is a group of archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.
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Dastilbe
Dastilbe is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish from the Aptian.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Dragonfly
A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera (from Greek ἄνισος anisos, "uneven" and πτερόν pteron, "wing", because the hindwing is broader than the forewing).
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Enantiornithes
Enantiornithes is a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era.
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Eolepidopterigoidea
Eolepidopterigoidea is an extinct superfamily of moths, containing the single family Eolepidopterigidae, although the genus Undopterix is sometimes placed in a separate family Undopterigidae.
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Ephedra
Ephedra is a medicinal preparation from the plant Ephedra sinica.
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Eurycephalella
Eurycephalella is an extinct genus of frog which existed in what is now Brazil during the lower Cretaceous period.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Geological formation
A formation or geological formation is the fundamental unit of lithostratigraphy.
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Gracilepteryx
Gracilepteryx is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Gracilepteryx pulchra, which is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
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Ichthyodectidae
The family Ichthyodectidae (literally "fish-biters") is an extinct family of marine actinopterygian fish.
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Incertae sedis
Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Ithonidae
Ithonidae, commonly called moth lacewings and giant lacewings, is a small family of winged insects of the insect order Neuroptera.
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Lacusovagus
Lacusovagus (meaning "lake wanderer") is a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil.
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Lagerstätte
A Lagerstätte (from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.
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Lepidotes
Lepidotes (previously known as Lepidotus) is an extinct genus of semionotid neopterygian ray-finned fish from the Jurassic period (Toarcian age) and Early Cretaceous.
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Ludodactylus
Ludodactylus was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Ceará, Brazil.
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Makarkinia
Makarkinia is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Kalligrammatidae described by Martins-Neto in 1997 from a fossil found in South America.
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Megalosauroidea
Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous period.
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Netoxena
Netoxena is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Netoxena nana, which is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
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Neuropterida
The Neuropterida are a clade, sometimes placed at superorder level, of holometabolous insects with over 5,700 described species, containing the orders Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions), Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies), and Raphidioptera (snakeflies).
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Nymphidae
Nymphidae, sometimes called split-footed lacewings, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.
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Odonata
Odonata is an order of carnivorous insects, encompassing the dragonflies (Anisoptera) and the damselflies (Zygoptera).
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Paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.
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Phosphorite
Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock which contains high amounts of phosphate minerals.
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Pipoidea
Pipoidea are a clade of frogs that have variously been defined as a suborder, superfamily, or an unranked node-based taxon.
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Principiala
Principiala is an extinct genus of lacewing in the moth lacewings family Ithonidae.
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Psamateia
Psamateia is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Psamateia calipsa, which is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.
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Rafaelia
Rafaelia is a genus of flesh flies (insects in the family Sarcophagidae).
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Santana Formation
The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together.
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Santanichthys
Santanichthys diasii is a species of extinct fish that existed around 115 million years ago during the Albian epoch.
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Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.
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Squamata
Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
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Susisuchus
Susisuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliform from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil.
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Tapejaridae
Tapejaridae (meaning "the old beings") are a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period.
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Taphonomy
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized.
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Tetrapodophis
Tetrapodophis (meaning "four-footed snake" in Greek) is an extinct genus of snake from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil.
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Tupandactylus
Tupandactylus (meaning "Tupan finger", in reference to the Tupi thunder god) is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil.
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Tupuxuara
Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, toothless pterodactyloid pterosaur.
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Undopterix
Undopterix is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species.
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Weathering
Weathering is the breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crato_Formation
