Histórico das Pesquisas Paleontológicas na Bacia do Araripe, Nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

The Araripe Basin is located in Northeastern Brazil and is known by its diversified Cretaceous fauna and flora. The great scientific valuable fossils as insects, plants, mollusks, fishes and pterosaurs are represented mainly in Santana Formation layers. This paper displays a historical research made on the Araripe Basin since the 19 century.

Keywords

• Araripe Basin
• Cretaceous
• Santana Formation Lagerstätten