8 km west Candelaria, BR 287, Sesmaria do Pinhal 1 (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 52.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 15.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ictidosauria 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 Caturrita Formation of Norian age (see Langer et al. 2007). Ictidosauria or Mammaliamorpha Assemblage Zone (= Jachaleria Interval)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; massive, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2000

• UFRGS: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre)

Primary reference: A. G. Martinelli, J. F. Bonaparte, C. L. Schultz and R. Rubert. 2005. A new tritheledontid (Therapsida, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and its phylogenetic relationships among carnivorous non-mammalian eucynodonts. Ameghiniana 42(1):191-208 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105530: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosuchia - Clevosauridae
Clevosaurus brasiliensis3 Bonaparte and Sues 2006 lepidosaur
MCN PV10104
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tritheledontidae
Riograndia guaibensis n. gen. n. sp.1, Irajatherium hernandezi n. gen. n. sp.
Riograndia guaibensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Bonaparte et al. 2001 mammaliamorph
MCN-PV 2264 (holotype), anterior portion of skull. MCN-PV 2265, MCN-PV 2271, lower jaws. UFRGS-PV-0569-T, UFRGS-PV-0601-T, skulls
Irajatherium hernandezi n. gen. n. sp. Martinelli et al. 2005 mammaliamorph
UFRGS-PV 0599T, fragmentary partial skeleton (holotype). UFRGS PV-1167-T, UFRGS PV-1175-T, maxillae
 Therapsida - Brasilodontidae
Brasilodontidae indet.2 Bonaparte and Martinelli 2005 mammaliamorph
MCN PV3001-3002