Varzea do Agudo site (Triassic to of Brazil)

Also known as Sítio Janner, Janner site

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 15.1° 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" in a stratigraphic level "with great abundance of the traversodontid Exaeretodon riograndensis." The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone is generally considered late Carnian in age, but could extend into the early Norian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; massive, red mudstone and sandstone

• "distal floodplain palaeoenvironment"
• "massive to finely laminated mudstone"; "reddish massive to laminated mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• UFRGS: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; UNIPAMPA, Universidade

•Federal do Pampa, São Gabriel

Primary reference: T. V. d.e. Oliveira, M. B. Soares, and C. L. Schultz. 2010. Trucidocynodon riograndensis gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Eucynodontia), a new cynodont from the Brazilian Upper Triassic (Santa Maria Formation). Zootaxa 2382:1-71 [R. Butler/R. Butler/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98623: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.10.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano and Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Hyperodapedon sp.1 Huxley 1859 rhynchosaur
 Diapsida - Proterochampsidae
Stenoscelida aurantiacus n. gen. n. sp.7
Stenoscelida aurantiacus n. gen. n. sp.7 Müller et al. 2022 archosauromorph
Holotype. CAPPA/UFSM 0293, a complete and articulated right hind limb
 Dinosauromorpha -
Dinosauriformes indet.5 Novas 1992 ornithodiran
UNIPAMPA-0632, partial left femur
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.9 Owen 1842 dinosaur
UFRGSPV-1240-T, postcrania
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet.4 Huene 1932 sauropodomorph
CAPPA/UFSM 0276, postcrania
Bagualosaurus agudoensis n. gen. n. sp.8 Pretto et al. 2019 sauropodomorph
UFRGS-PV-1099-T (holotype), a semi-articulated skeleton, including partial skull and mandible, trunk vertebrae, sacrum and isolated caudal vertebrae, fragmented ribs, gastralia, isolated haemal arches, both ilia, right pubis, femora, tibiae, fibulae and partial left pes
 Saurischia - Saturnaliidae
Pampadromaeus barberenai n. gen. n. sp.1 Cabreira et al. 2011 sauropodomorph
ULBRA-PVT016
cf. Pampadromaeus barberenai6 Cabreira et al. 2011 sauropodomorph
CAPPA/UFSM 0027, complete left femur
 Pseudosuchia - Ornithosuchidae
Dynamosuchus collisensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Dynamosuchus collisensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Müller et al. 2020 archosaur
Holotype: CAPPA/UFSM 0248, a partial skeleton including the pre- maxillae, left maxilla, frontals, right postfrontal, right parietal, squa- mosals, quadratojugals, quadrates, parabasisphenoid, both hemiman- dibles, some cervical, dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, several ribs, gastralia, osteoderms, left scapula, both forelimbs, left ilium, right pubis, left femur, right tibia, and left fibula.
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Trucidocynodon riograndensis n. gen. n. sp. Oliveira et al. 2010 cynodont
UFRGS PV-1051-T; an almost complete skeleton
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Exaeretodon riograndensis2 Abdala et al. 2002 cynodont
UFRGS PV-0715-T