Also known as Outcrop BR-14

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 15.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hyperodapedon other zone, Alemoa Member (Santa Maria Formation), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Locality is from the Santa Maria Sequence 2, Santa Maria Supersequence of the Rosario do Sul Group, corresponding to the Alemoa Member of the Santa Maria Formation, or so-called "Hyperodapedon Acme Zone" of late Carnian-early Norian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte and M. C. Barbarena. 1975. A possible mammalian ancestor from the Middle Triassic of Brazil (Therapsida-Cynodontia). Journal of Paleontology 49(5):931-936 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13220: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 29.01.2002, edited by Richard Butler

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