Unaysaurus tolentinoi Leal et al. 2004 (plateosaurid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Plateosauridae

Full reference: L. A. Leal, S. A. K. Azevedo, A. W. A. Kellner and A. A. S. Da Rosa. 2004. A new early dinosaur (Sauropodomorpha) from the Caturrita Formation (Late Triassic), Paraná Basin, Brazil. Zootaxa 690:1-24

Belongs to Unaysaurus according to R. T. Müller and M. S. Garcia 2021

See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Barrett et al. 2007, Bittencourt et al. 2013, Bittencourt and Langer 2011, Da-Rosa 2013, Langer et al. 2010, Leal et al. 2004 and McPhee et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UFSM 11069, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Água Negra, which is in a Norian terrestrial conglomerate/shale in the Caturrita Formation of Brazil.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Água Negra

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