Wald Sanga (upper) (Triassic of Brazil)

Also known as Huene Sanga 1, Waldsanga

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 53.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 16.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Caturrita Formation (Rosário do Sul Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Locality is from the upper part of the highstand system tract of the Santa Maria Sequence 2, Santa Maria Supersequence of the Rosario do Sul Group, representing the lower part of the Caturrita Formation of Norian age (see Langer et al. 2007; Montefeltro et al. 2010). Fossils are from a stratigraphically higher level than Hyperodapedon from the same locality.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stahlecker in 1928-1929

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• MCP: Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Pontifıcia Universidade Catolica, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1942. Lieferungen 3/4. Pseudosuchia, Saurischia, Rhynchosauridae und Schlussabschnitt [Parts 3/4. Pseudosuchia, Saurischia, Rhynchosauridae, and Conclusions]. 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 161-332 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72087: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2007, edited by Emma Dunne and Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Teyumbaita sulcognathus2 Azevedo and Schultz 1987 rhynchosaur
 Pseudosuchia -
Pseudosuchia indet. archosaur
Small ulna and metatarsal
 Saurischia -
Nhandumirim waldsangae n. gen. n. sp.1
Nhandumirim waldsangae n. gen. n. sp.1 Marsola et al. 2019 saurischian
LPRP/USP 0651 (Holotype), a partial postcranial skeleton, consisting of three trunk vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, seven caudal vertebrae, a chevron, and pelvic and hind limb bones from the right side of the body, including an ilium, femur, partial tibia, fibula, metatarsals II and IV, and ungual and nonungual phalanges