Brazilosaurus
Temporal range: Early Permian, 284–279.5 Ma
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Holotype specimen (BSPG 1965 I 131) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Mesosauria |
Family: | †Mesosauridae |
Genus: | †Brazilosaurus Shikama & Ozaki, 1966 |
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†Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis Shikama & Ozaki, 1966 |
Brazilosaurus is an extinct genusofmesosaur which lived during the early Permian (Artinskian stage) of what is now Brazil. It is known from specimen BSPG 1965 I 131, a single skeleton recovered from the Assistencia Member of the Irati Formation (Hanayama Farm, Tatuí, São Paulo), in the Paraná Basin. It was named by T. Shikama and H. Ozaki in 1966 and the type speciesisBrazilosaurus sanpauloensis.[1]
Brazilosaurus is not to be confused with the archosaur Brasileosaurus.
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Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis |
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