Dona Francisca (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.6° S, 53.5° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 18.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte, M. B. Soares, and C. L. Schultz. 2006. A new non-mammalian cynodont from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil and its implications for the ancestry of mammals. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:599-607 [R. Butler/R. Butler/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93693: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Prestosuchidae
Prestosuchidae indet. Romer 1966 archosaur
MCN PV 3585, 10004, 10005, UFRGS PV0629T
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Massetognathus sp. Romer 1967 cynodont
 Therapsida - Brasilodontidae
Protheriodon estudianti n. gen. n. sp.
Protheriodon estudianti n. gen. n. sp. Bonaparte et al. 2006 mammaliamorph
UFRGS PV0962T, partial skull
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
Dinodontosaurus pedroanum Tupi-Caldas 1936 dicynodont