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Crato Formation: History, Overview & Fossil content

The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly during the Aptian age, about 113 million years ago. It thought to have been deposited in a semi-arid lacustrine wetland…

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Crato Formation topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Overview and Fossil content as prominent areas in the source structure around Crato Formation.

Related topics
27
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
44
Extracted relationships
35
Related term clusters
24
Bridge connections
44

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 14 topics
History · 10 topics
Fossil content · 3 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Approximate paleocoordinates
8°36′S 8°00′W / 8.6°S 8.0°W / -8.6; -8.0
Country
Brazil
Extent
Araripe Basin
Named for
Crato, Ceará
Other
Siltstone
Overlies
Barbalha Formation

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Bibliography

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How Crato Formation connects Entity context

The extracted context around Crato Formation shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Crato Formation → Aptian-Albian, Araripe Group, Araripina Formation, Bechly, Crato, Loveridge, Ma, Martill, Paracuru Formation, Romualdo Formation, Santana, Santana Formation, Santana Group, The Crato Formation, The Crato Member Another extracted example is Crato Formation → Crato, Fish, Fossil Odonata, Hemiptera, Local, Orthoptera, Trade. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Crato Formation

Top relations

related to Definition · 15
Crato Formation → Aptian-Albian, Araripe Group, Araripina Formation, Bechly, Crato, Loveridge, Ma, Martill, Paracuru Formation, Romualdo Formation, Santana, Santana Formation, Santana Group, The Crato Formation, The Crato Member
related to history · 7
Crato Formation → Crato, Fish, Fossil Odonata, Hemiptera, Local, Orthoptera, Trade
Approximate paleocoordinates · 1
Crato Formation → 8°36′S 8°00′W / 8.6°S 8.0°W / -8.6; -8.0
Country · 1
Crato Formation → Brazil
Extent · 1
Crato Formation → Araripe Basin
Named for · 1
Crato Formation → Crato, Ceará
Other · 1
Crato Formation → Siltstone
Overlies · 1
Crato Formation → Barbalha Formation
Primary · 1
Crato Formation → Mudstone, limestone
Region · 1
Crato Formation → Ceará, Pernambuco

Important terminology

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Important terminology

crato doi formation 10 bibcode araripe cretaceous brazil fossil de santana aptian basin new pdf da also s2cid lower 1016

Crato Formation relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 35 structured relationships around Crato Formation. Examples in this analysis include Crato Formation → Approximate paleocoordinates → 8°36′S 8°00′W / 8.6°S 8.0°W / -8.6; -8.0 and Crato Formation → Country → Brazil. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Crato FormationApproximate paleocoordinates8°36′S 8°00′W / 8.6°S 8.0°W / -8.6; -8.01.00infobox
Crato FormationCountryBrazil1.00infobox
Crato FormationExtentAraripe Basin1.00infobox
Crato FormationNamed forCrato, Ceará1.00infobox
Crato FormationOtherSiltstone1.00infobox
Crato FormationOverliesBarbalha Formation1.00infobox
Crato FormationPrimaryMudstone, limestone1.00infobox
Crato FormationRegionCeará, Pernambuco1.00infobox
Crato FormationSub-unitsNova Olinda Member1.00infobox
Crato FormationTypeGeological formation1.00infobox
Crato FormationUnderliesRomualdo & Ipubi Formations1.00infobox
Crato FormationUnit ofSantana Group1.00infobox
Crato Formationis ageologic formation of Early Cretaceous0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Crato Formation bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Formation, Araripe and Brazil. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Crato Formation
    • Formation
    • Araripe
    • Brazil
    • Santana
    • Cretaceous
    • Fossil
    • Member
    • Romualdo
    • Lower
    • Basin
    • New
    • Bacia
  • crato formation
    • Formation
    • Santana
    • Araripe
    • Brazil
    • Lower
    • Cretaceous
    • Fossil
    • Member
    • Romualdo
    • Northeastern
    • Basin
    • New
  • romualdo formation
    • Santana
    • Brazil
    • Lower
    • Member
    • Northeastern
    • Romualdo
    • Limestone
    • Bacia
    • Fossil
    • New
    • Insects
    • Preserved
  • formation
    • Santana
    • Brazil
    • Lower
    • Member
    • Northeastern
    • Romualdo
    • Fossil
    • New
    • Insects
    • Preserved
    • De
    • Lagerstätte
  • araripe basin
    • Basin
    • Brazil
    • Santana
    • Crato
    • Northeastern
    • De
    • Formation
    • Pdf
    • Bacia
    • Da
    • Member
    • Romualdo
  • araripe manakin
    • Basin
    • Santana
    • Crato
    • De
    • Formation
    • Brazil
    • Pdf
    • Bacia
    • Da
    • Member
    • Northeastern
    • Romualdo
  • chapada do araripe
    • Basin
    • Santana
    • Crato
    • De
    • Formation
    • Brazil
    • Pdf
    • Bacia
    • Da
    • Member
    • Northeastern
    • Romualdo
  • paracuru formation
    • Santana
    • Brazil
    • Lower
    • Member
    • Northeastern
    • Romualdo
    • Fossil
    • New
    • Insects
    • Preserved
    • De
    • Lagerstätte

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Crato Formation, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Crato Formation with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Crato Formation — Overview · splits 30 ⟂ 15
Crato Formation — Bibliography · splits 31 ⟂ 14
Crato Formation — History · splits 34 ⟂ 11
Crato Formation — Fossil content · splits 41 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Crato Formation

Nodes45
Edges44
Triples35
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.044444
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Crato Formation to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Overview & Fossil content, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Crato Formation · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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