Cachoeira do Sul, Mangueirinha (Triassic of Brazil)

Also known as MCP Locality ST 71-26

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (30.0° S, 52.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° S, 18.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Berdyankian LVF zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cargnin in 1971

• MCP - Museu de Ciencias e Teconologia, Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas. 2002. A new dicynodont from the Triassic of Brazil and the tetrapod biochronology of the Brazilian Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:131-141 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196841: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
"Stahleckeria impotens n. sp." = Stahleckeria potens
"Stahleckeria impotens n. sp." = Stahleckeria potens Huene 1935 dicynodont
MCP 272PV, skull, lower jaw and partial postcranium