Towards an actualistic view of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte paleoenvironment: A new hypothesis as an Early Cretaceous (Aptian) equatorial and semi-arid wetland

AC Ribeiro, GC Ribeiro, FG Varejão, LD Battirola… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
An alternative hypothesis concerning the paleoecological and paleoenvironmental
depositional conditions of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte (CKL), Crato Formation, Aptian …

Microbially mediated fossil concretions and their characterization by the latest methodologies: A review

NK Dhami, PF Greenwood, SF Poropat… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The study of well-preserved organic matter (OM) within mineral concretions has provided
key insights into depositional and environmental conditions in deep time. Concretions of …

Mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sedimentation in an evolving epicontinental sea: Aptian record of marginal marine settings in the interior basins of north‐eastern Brazil

FG Varejao, LV Warren, MG Simoes, LA Buatois… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Aptian evaporitic transitional sequence (sag phase) of the Brazilian marginal basins
records the first connection between the Central and South Atlantic oceans in the equatorial …

Early Aptian marine incursions in the interior of northeastern Brazil following the Gondwana breakup

G Fauth, HP Kern, J Villegas-Martín… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study reports a set of primeval marine incursions identified in two drill cores, 1PS-06-
CE, and 1PS-10-CE, which recovered the Barbalha Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Based …

Mayfly larvae preservation from the Early Cretaceous of Brazilian Gondwana: Analogies with modern mats and other Lagerstätten

JJ Dias, I de Souza Carvalho, ÁD Buscalioni… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Crato Formation paleoentomofauna is noticeable for its high abundance,
diversity and morphological fidelity, so the preservational approach of the Ephemeroptera …

The role of microbial mats in the exquisite preservation of Aptian insect fossils from the Crato Lagerstätte, Brazil

JJ Dias, I de Souza Carvalho - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The insect fossils recorded in the lithographic limestones of the Crato Formation (Aptian of
the Araripe Basin, Brazil) have a high degree of morphological fidelity of external and …

Evaluation of distinct soft-sediment deformation triggers in mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems: Lessons from the Brazilian Pre-Salt analogue Crato Formation …

FG Varejão, LV Warren, MG Simões, RI Cerri… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDSs) are ubiquitous in several depositional
sedimentary environments and can be triggered by autogenic-and allogenic-related …

Marine or freshwater? Accessing the paleoenvironmental parameters of the Caldas Bed, a key marker bed in the Crato Formation (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil)

FG Varejão, VR Silva, ML Assine, LV Warren… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract The Aptian Crato Formation is world renowned for its well-preserved fossils in
microbially-induced laminated limestones, which are regarded as one of the main …

Soft tissue histology of insect larvae decayed in laboratory experiments using microbial mats: Taphonomic comparison with Cretaceous fossil insects from the …

M Iniesto, P Gutiérrez-Silva, JJ Dias, IS Carvalho… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental taphonomy using microbial mats offers new insights into the mechanisms
involved in the decay of organisms and their preservation as fossils. In this paper, the …

Effects of chemical weathering on the exceptional preservation of mineralized insects from the Crato Formation, Cretaceous of Brazil: implications for late diagenesis …

FI Bezerra, JH da Silva, EVH Agressot… - Geological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Many studies have improved our understanding of the mode of preservation at the Crato
fossil Lagerstätte. The high degree of preservation of the Crato mineralized insects is …