Cynodontier-Sanga (excavation 39), Chiniquá (Triassic of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 54.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 19.6° 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; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stahlecker in 1928-1939

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

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 99413: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodon tener n. sp.1 Huene 1935 dicynodont
GPIT Unnumbered, a skull fragment consisting of the frontals and preparietal
Dicynodon turpior Huene 1935 dicynodont
 Therapsida -
Cynodontia indet.2 cynodont
Partial femur
 Therapsida - Chiniquodontidae
"Belesodon magnificus" = Chiniquodon theotonicus2
"Belesodon magnificus" = Chiniquodon theotonicus2 Huene 1936 cynodont
Humerus
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Prestosuchus chiniquensis Huene 1942 archosaur
"Fragment"