Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.6° S, 53.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 15.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-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.

•upper part of Alemoa member, close to contact with Caturrita Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tabular, fine-grained, nodular, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ferigolo & Silva in 2002-2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. C. da Silva, I. d. S. Carvalho, and A. C. S. Fernandes. 2008. Pegadas de dinossauros do Triássico (Formação Santa Maria) do Brasil [Dinosaur footprints from the Triassic (Santa Maria Formation) of Brazil]. Ameghiniana 45(4):783-790 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88203: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.04.2009

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