Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.8° S, 52.8° W: paleocoordinates 48.2° S, 14.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Maria Formation, Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• "The type of preservation of the specimen with a supporting REE analysis indicates that it belongs to a site from the Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone, Middle-Late Triassic (late Ladinian–earliest Carnian age)."
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: "The specimen was donated to the Museu Municipal Aristides Carlos Rodrigues in the Municipality of Candelária (MMACR) by a local citizen who requested, emphatically, to remain anonymous and did not reveal the place of the discovery."
Primary reference: M. B. Lacerda, M. A. G. de França, and C. L. Schultz. 2018. A new erpetosuchid (Pseudosuchia, Archosauria) from the Middle–Late Triassic of Southern Brazil. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-21 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193001: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 01.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pagosvenator candelariensis n. gen. n. sp.
Pagosvenator candelariensis n. gen. n. sp. Lacerda et al. 2018 archosaur Holotype: MMACR PV 036-T; mostly complete and articulated skull and lower jaws, associated with two incomplete vertebrae and five heavily ornamented osteoderms
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