Also known as Staurikosaurus type site, Sanga Grande, Santa Maria

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° S, 15.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Rhynchocephalian (Scaphonyx) Assemblage Zone, middle part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone and red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. I. Price in 1937; reposited in the MCZ

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. H. Colbert. 1970. A saurischian dinosaur from the Triassic of Brazil. American Museum Novitates 2405:1-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48658: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.03.2005

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