12km south of Candelaria (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 52.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.4° S, 14.6° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinodontosaurus other zone, Chañares Formation, Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• Pinheiros-Chiniquá Sequence, Santa Maria Supersequence, Dinodontosaurus AZ, which is considered early Carnian in age. PJW: This is the Chañares formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. G. Martinelli, M. B. Soares, and C. Schwanke. 2016. Two New Cynodonts (Therapsida) from the Middle-Early Late Triassic of Brazil and Comments on South American Probainognathians. PLoS ONE 11(10):e0162945 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194176: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 15.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Probainognathidae
Bonacynodon schultzi n. gen. n. sp.
Bonacynodon schultzi n. gen. n. sp. Martinelli et al. 2016 cynodont
MCT-1716-R (Holotype: partial skull lacking most of the skull roof with partial dentition, articulated lower jaws, and part of its postcranial skeleton, although poorly preserved)