Also known as Archaeopelta holotype

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 54.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 19.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-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) of Ladinian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. L. Schultz

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• CPEZ: Coleção Municipal, São Pedro do Sul; Brazil

Primary reference: J. B. Desojo, M. D. Ezcurra, and C. L. Schultz. 2011. An unusual new archosauriform from the Middle–Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the monophyly of Doswelliidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161:839-871 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106504: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.03.2011

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