Posto de Gasolina, site B (Triassic of Brazil)

Also known as Decuriasuchus site

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.6° S, 53.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° S, 18.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinodontosaurus other zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Transgressive systems tract of 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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

• MCN: Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul

•UNIPAMPA, Laboratório de Paleobiologia – Universidade Federal do Pampa

Primary reference: M. A. G. Franca, J. Ferigolo, and M. C. Langer. 2011. Associated skeletons of a new middle Triassic “Rauisuchia” from Brazil. Naturwissenschaften 98:389-395 [R. Butler/R. Butler/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107353: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
Decuriasuchus quartacolonia Franca et al. 2011 archosaur
MCN PV10004, cranial remains
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Massetognathus ochagaviae Barbarena 1974 cynodont
UNIPAMPA 0625, partial skeleton