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 …

Estratigrafia da Bacia do Araripe: estado da arte, revisão crítica e resultados novos

GL Fambrini, DC Silvestre, AM Barreto Junior… - 2020 - repositorio.ufc.br
A Bacia do Araripe constitui-se em bacia rifte originada pelo rompimento do
Supercontinente Gondwana, conhecida como a bacia interior de registro sedimentar mais …

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 …

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 …

Quantifying aperture, spacing and fracture intensity in a carbonate reservoir analogue: Crato Formation, NE Brazil

TS Miranda, RF Santos, JA Barbosa, IF Gomes… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
The characterization of fracture networks in carbonate reservoirs represents a primary
approach to understand the processes of fluid flow. The study of outcrop analogues has …

Exceptional preservation of soft tissues by microbial entombment: insights into the taphonomy of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte

FG Varejão, LV Warren, MG Simões, FT Fürsich… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Aptian Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte is renowned for its exceptionally
preserved fossils in lacustrine laminated limestones. Although previous works on this site …

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 …

Deciphering pyritization-kerogenization gradient for fish soft-tissue preservation

GL Osés, S Petri, CG Voltani, GMEM Prado… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Soft-tissue preservation provides palaeobiological information that is otherwise lost during
fossilization. In Brazil, the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation contains fish with …

Stromatolites from the Aptian Crato Formation, a hypersaline lake system in the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil

LV Warren, FG Varejão, F Quaglio, MG Simões… - Facies, 2017 - Springer
The origin of the Cretaceous laminites of the Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern
Brazil, has been intensely debated since the beginning of the last century. The monotonous …

Quantifying porosity through automated image collection and batch image processing: case study of three carbonates and an aragonite cemented sandstone

J Buckman, SA Bankole, S Zihms, H Lewis, G Couples… - Geosciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Modern scanning electron microscopes often include software that allows for the possibility
of obtaining large format high-resolution image montages over areas of several square …