Becker outcrop, Pinheiro (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 52.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° S, 17.4° 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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• MMACR PV-T: Museu Municipal Aristides Carlos Rodrigues, Paleovertebrates-Triassic, Candelária, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Primary reference: T. V. de Oliveira, C. L. Schultz, M. B. Soares and C. N. Rodriques. 2011. A new carnivorous cynodont (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the Brazilian Middle Triassic (Santa Maria Formation): Candelariodon barberenai gen. et sp. nov. Zootaxa 3027:19-28 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117926: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Massetognathus sp. Romer 1967 cynodont
 Therapsida -
Candelariodon barberenai n. gen. n. sp.
Candelariodon barberenai n. gen. n. sp. de Oliveira et al. 2011 cynodont
MMACR PV-0001-T, fused mandibles