Posto Queimado: Wordian - Capitanian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
1 element
"aquatic amphibian"; specimen (humerus) formerly assigned to Provelosaurus americanus (see Malabarba et al., 2003, Rev. Bras. Paleont. 6)
Reptilia - Pareiasauridae
Malabarba et al. 2003 1 individual
MCP 4263PV
Anteosauridae
Brithopodinae indet. (Efremov 1954)
Langer 2000 1 specimen
UFRGS PV0249T, tooth
    = Anteosauridae indet. Boonstra 1954
Boos et al. 2015
Anteosauroidea indet. Boonstra 1962
Langer 2000 1 specimen
UFRGS PV0314T, tooth
    = Anteosauridae indet. Boonstra 1954
Boos et al. 2015
unclassified
Langer 2000 1 specimen
MCN PV 2351
Boos et al. 2015
Tapinocephalidae
Boos et al. 2015 1 specimen
MCP 4266-PV
Titanosuchidae
Langer 2000 1 specimen
MCP 3838-PV, tooth
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Malabarba et al. 2003 1 specimen
MCP 4275-PV, an incomplete right mandibular ramus
Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Langer 2000
unclassified
Langer 2000
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Langer 2000
Malabarba et al. 2003 1 specimen
MCP 4274-PV
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Rio Grande do Sul County:São Gabriel
Coordinates: 30.0° South, 54.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° South, 24.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Wordian - Capitanian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Wordian - Capitanian
Age range of interval: 266.9 - 259.51 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Passa Dois Formation:Rio do Rasto Member:Morro Pelado
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The beds from which vertebrates come are correlated with the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Karroo) and the Isheevo Complex (Russia), which are Capitanian or Wordian to Capitanian in age (Cisneros et al. 2005, fig. 6; Tsuji & Müller, 2008, Can. J. Earth Sci. 45, fig. 2). For discussion see Cisneros et al. (2005, p. 21).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
Lithology description: "The rocks outcropping at the Posto Queimado locality belong to the Morro Pelado Member, and are characterized by a sequence of pelites, interspersed with clay lenses, sand and intraformational conglomerates." Pacheco et al. 2016
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: The depositional environment of the Morro Pelado Member has been interpreted as meandering fluvial to lacustrine, deltaic and aeolian (Rohn 1994), Holz et al. (2010a) suggesting alluvial conditions with coalescing flood plains, including crevasse splay deposits and inundites of occasional shallow river channels.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Paraná Basin
Database number:78657
Authorizer:J. Mueller, R. Butler Enterer:J. Dummasch, R. Butler, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:E. Dunne Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-02-13 05:45:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-13 05:45:02
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26448. J. C. Cisneros, F. Abdala, and M.C. Malabarba. 2005. Pareiasaurids from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Southern Brazil: biostratigraphic implications for Permian faunas of the Paraná basin. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 8(1):13-24 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]

Secondary references:

62593 A. D. S. Boos, C. F. Kammerer, C. L. Schultz and V. D. Paes Neto. 2015. A tapinocephalid dinocephalian (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the Rio do Rasto Formation (Parana Basin, Brazil): Taxonomic, ontogenetic and biostratigraphic considerations. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 63:375-384 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]
62286 M. C. Langer. 2000. The first record of dinocephalians in South America: Late Permian (Rio do Rasto Formation) of the Parana Basin, Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 215(1):69-95 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
62599 M. C. Malabarba, F. Abdala, F. E. Weiss and P. A. Perez. 2003. New data on the late Permian vertebrate fauna of Posto Queimado, Rio do Rasto Formation, southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 6:49-54 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
60043 C. P. Pacheco, E. Eltink, R. T. Müller and S. Dias-da-Silva. 2017. A new Permian temnospondyl with Russian affinities from South America, the new family Konzhukoviidae, and the phylogenetic status of Archegosauroidea. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(3):241-256 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/P. Wagner]