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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Massetognathus sp. Romer 1967 cynodont | |
Protheriodon estudianti n. gen. n. sp.
Protheriodon estudianti n. gen. n. sp. Bonaparte et al. 2006 mammaliamorph UFRGS PV0962T, partial skull
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Dinodontosaurus pedroanum Tupi-Caldas 1936 dicynodont |