Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° S, 16.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hyperodapedon other zone, Caturrita Formation (Rosário do Sul Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Locality is from the upper part of the highstand system tract of the Santa Maria Sequence 2, Santa Maria Supersequence of the Rosario do Sul Group, representing the lower part of the Caturrita Formation of Norian age (see Langer et al. 2007; Montefeltro et al. 2010). Fossils are from a stratigraphically higher level than Hyperodapedon from the same locality.

•Specimen collected from approximately 11.5 metres above base of section (Montefeltro et al. 2010: fig. 1)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: UFRGS: Instituto de Geociencias, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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 102348: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.01.2011

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