Also known as Saturnalia holotype site, Waldsanga, Sanga do Mato

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 15.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hyperodapedon other zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Santa Maria 2 (upper half of Santa Maria Formation), from the so-called "Rhynchosaur Cenozone" or "Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone". The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone has generally considered been late Carnian in age, but could extend into the early Norian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; red siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. C. Langer. 2005. Studies on continental Late Triassic tetrapod biochronology. I. The type locality of Saturnalia tupiniquim and the faunal succession in south Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:205-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56189: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2005

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