Bom Retiro general area, south of Candelaria (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.8° S, 52.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° S, 17.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dinodontosaurus other zone, Santa Maria Formation (Rosário do Sul Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Santa Maria Sequence 1 of the Santa Maria Supersequence (Rosario do Sul Group), corresponding to the "Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone" of the lower Santa Maria Formation (Langer et al. 2007).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by White, Price in 1936; reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: A. S. Romer. 1969. The Brazilian Triassic cynodont reptiles Belesodon and Chiniquodon. Breviora 332:1-16 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105529: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Chiniquodontidae
"Chiniquodon theotonicus" = Chiniquodon theotonicus, "Belesodon magnificus" = Chiniquodon theotonicus
"Chiniquodon theotonicus" = Chiniquodon theotonicus Huene 1936 cynodont
MCZ 3614, 3615, skulls and postcranial material
"Belesodon magnificus" = Chiniquodon theotonicus Huene 1936 cynodont
MCZ 1533, skull