Buriol (Triassic of Brazil)

Also known as Buriol ravine, Sítio Buriol; Burial site

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.4° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 15.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hyperodapedon other zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Locality is from the Santa Maria Sequence 2, Santa Maria Supersequence of the Rosario do Sul Group, corresponding to the Alemoa Member of the Santa Maria Formation, or so-called "Hyperodapedon Acme Zone" of late Carnian-early Norian age (see Langer et al. 2007).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005–2017

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• ULBRA PVT, Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Coleção de Paleovertebrados, Canoas

Primary reference: L. Roberto-da-Silva, J. B. Desojo, S. F. Cabreira, A. S. S. Aires, R. T. Mueller, C. P. Pacheco, and S. Dias-da-Silva. 2014. A new aetosaur from the Upper Triassic of the Santa Maria Formation, southern Brazil. Zootaxa 3764(3):240-278 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175578: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.12.2015, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Polesinesuchus aurelioi n. gen. n. sp.
Polesinesuchus aurelioi n. gen. n. sp. Roberto-da-Silva et al. 2014 aetosaur
ULBRAPVT003, partial skeleton
 Saurischia -
Saurischia indet.3 Seeley 1888 saurischian
CAPPA/UFSM 0228, two cossified sacral vertebrae
Buriolestes schultzi n. gen. n. sp.1 Cabreira et al. 2016 sauropodomorph
ULBRA-PVT280, articulated skeleton. CAPPA/UFSM 0244
 Lagerpetidae - Lagerpetidae
Ixalerpeton polesinensis n. gen. n. sp.1, Venetoraptor gassenae n. gen. n. sp.4
Ixalerpeton polesinensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Cabreira et al. 2016 ornithodiran
ULBRA-PVT059, partially articulated skeleton (holotype). Plus a pair of fragmentary femora.
Venetoraptor gassenae n. gen. n. sp.4 Müller et al. 2023 ornithodiran
CAPPA/UFSM 0356 - holotype
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Compsocerops sp.2 Sengupta 1995 tetrapod
ULBRA PVT 059a, the left orbital series which only lacks the prefrontal; ULBRA PVT 059b, a fragmentary portion of the left postorbital region of the skull; ULBRA PVT 061, a clavicular element; ULBRA PVT 062, a humerus; ULBRA PVT 060, a mandibular fragment.