Sanga Pinheiros (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.8° S, 52.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° S, 17.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinodontosaurus 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

Primary reference: E.-E. Kischlat. 2000. Tecodoncios: a aurora dos arcossaurios no Triassico. In M. Holz, L. F. De Ross (eds.), Paleontologia do Rio Grande do Sul 273-316 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175574: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterochampsidae
Rhadinosuchinae indet. Hofstetter 1955 archosauromorph
UFRGS-PV-0464-T, UFRGS-PV-065-T