Sítio Cortado, RST 287 Highway (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 17.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinodontosaurus other zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• "The sediments pertain to the same horizon as those from which the holotype [of Candelaria barbouri] was recovered." (Cisneros et al., 2004); see PBDB coll. no 92807

•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: fig. 2, locality 32).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; nodular, red mudstone and fine-grained sandstone

• "red pelites with nodular horizons" (da Rosa et al. 2004)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, permineralized

Collected by Fr. A. Cargnin, Fr. D. Cargnin in 1981, 1989, 2000-2001

• UFSM = Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

•Father Abrahão Cargnin, Museu de Ciências da Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Father D. Cargnin, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

Primary reference: L. C. B. Mattar. 1987. Sobre Barberenasuchus brasiliensis gen. et sp. nov., do Mesotriássico do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. I. Diagnoses genérica e específica [On Barberenasuchus brasiliensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I. Generic and specific diagnoses. Anais do X Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia, Rio de Janeiro, 19-25 de Julho, 1987 1:77-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92809: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 30.11.2009, edited by Richard Butler and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia -
Procolophonoidea indet.2 parareptile
UFSM 11076a-f, postcranial elements
 Parareptilia - Owenettidae
Candelaria barbouri1 Price 1947 parareptile
UFSM 11076, 11131
 Diapsida -
Barberenasuchus brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp. Mattar 1987 archosauromorph
MCPUCRGS-220
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Dicynodontidae
Dicynodontidae indet.2 Owen 1859 dicynodont
UFSM 11143, 11126, tusks, UFSM 11099, manus, UFSM 11075-1, 11075-2, humeri, UFSM 11075-3, phalanx
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
Dinodontosaurus pedroanum5 Tupi-Caldas 1936 dicynodont
UFSM 11078, skull and mandible, UFSM 11096, mandible
 Therapsida -
Cynodontia indet.2 cynodont
UFSM 11096, 11162, 11079, skulls and postcranial remains
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Protuberum cabralensis n. gen. n. sp.6
Protuberum cabralensis n. gen. n. sp.6 Reichel et al. 2009 cynodont
MGB 368 8260; 100, skull and partial postcranium
 Oxyurida - Heteroxynematidae
Paleoxyuris cockburni n. gen. n. sp.4
Paleoxyuris cockburni n. gen. n. sp.4 Hugot et al. 2014
Enoplea
 Rhabditida - Ascarididae
Ascarites rufferi n. sp.3 Da Silva et al. 2014