Also known as Spondylosoma type site

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 54.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 19.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinodontosaurus other zone, Santa Maria Formation (Rosário do Sul Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Santa Maria Sequence 1 of the Santa Maria Supersequence (Rosario do Sul Group), corresponding to the "Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone" of the lower Santa Maria Formation (Langer et al. 2007)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Stahlecker in 1928-1939

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1933. Auffindung und Behandlung eines fossilen Saurierskeletts [Discovery and treatment of a fossil saurian skeleton]. Aus der Heimat: Naturwissenschaftliche Monatsschrift des Deutschen Lehrervereins für Naturkunde 46(5):129-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48659: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.03.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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