Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 15.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hyperodapedon other zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Santa Maria 2 (upper half of Santa Maria Formation), from the so-called "Rhynchosaur Cenozone" or "Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone". The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone has generally considered been late Carnian in age, but could extend into the early Norian.

•Specimen collected from approximately 8 metres above base of unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. C. Montefeltro, M. C. Langer, and C. L. Schultz. 2010. Cranial anatomy of a new genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:27-52 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102345: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.01.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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