Wald Sanga, Santa Maria (middle) (Triassic to of Brazil)

Also known as Huene Sanga 1, Waldsanga

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Santa Maria 2 (upper half of Santa Maria Formation), from the so-called "Rhynchosaur Cenozone" or "Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone". The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone has generally considered been late Carnian in age, but could extend into the early Norian.

•Specimens come from approximately 11 metres above the base of the section at Wald Sanga (see Montefeltro et al. 2010: fig. 1)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stahlecker in 1928-1929

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1936. Lieferung 2. Cynodontia [Part 2. Cynodontia]. Die Fossilen Reptilien des Südamerikanischen Gondwanalandes. Ergebnisse der Sauriergrabungen in Südbrasilien 1928/29 [The Fossil Reptiles of South American Gondwanaland. Results of the Dinosaur Expeditions in southern Brazil 1928/29]. C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, München 83-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72086: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2007, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Alemoatherium huebneri n. gen. n. sp.2
Alemoatherium huebneri n. gen. n. sp.2 Martinelli et al. 2017 cynodont
UFSM 11579b, holotype
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Gomphodontosuchus brasiliensis n. gen. n. sp. Huene 1928 cynodont
Reptilia
 Rhynchosauria -
Rhynchosauria indet.3 Osborn 1903 rhynchosaur
 Pseudosuchia -
Hoplitosuchus raui1 Huene 1942 aetosaur