Bagé-Aceguá Highway, Provelosaurus type (Permian to of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (31.8° S, 54.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.2° S, 30.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rio do Rasto Formation (Passa Dois Group), Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 259.9 Ma)

• The beds from which vertebrates come are correlated with the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Karroo) and the Isheevo Complex (Russia), which are Capitanian or Wordian to Capitanian in age (Cisneros et al. 2005, fig. 6; Tsuji & Müller, 2008, Can. J. Earth Sci. 45, fig. 2). For discussion see Cisneros et al. (2005, p. 21).

•Subsequently suggested to be of Roadian to Wordian age on the basis of the temnospondyls from this local area by Pacheco et al. (2017)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: UFRGS: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre

Primary reference: M. S. Y. Lee. 1997. A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial paleoecology. Modern Geology 21:231-298 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171380: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha - Pareiasauridae
"Pareiasaurus americanus n. sp." = Provelosaurus americanus
"Pareiasaurus americanus n. sp." = Provelosaurus americanus Araújo 1985 parareptile
UFRGS PV0231P (holotype), UFRGS PV0232P (paratype)