Pastos Bons, Maranhao (Permian of Brazil)

Also known as Pedra de Fogo type-section

Where: Maranhao, Brazil (5.6° S, 42.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 9.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Pedra de Fogo Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• "Lower Pedra de Fogo Formation (Parna ́ıba Basin)"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

• "The fossil-bearing interval is interpreted as fluvio-lacustrine in origin, deposited in a range of terrestrial and aquatic sub-environments on the margins and nearshore of large continental lakes, on seasonally wet floodplains and channels, and within small ponds " Cisneros et al. (2015)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Cisneros, C. Marsicano, K. D. Angielczyk, R. M. H. Smith, M. Richter, J. Frobisch, C. F. Kammerer and R. W. Sadleir. 2015. New Permian fauna from tropical Gondwana. Nature Communications 6(8676) [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180815: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.08.2016

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Rhinesuchidae
Rhinesuchidae indet.
Rhinesuchidae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
UFPI PV003 and PV360