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Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis)
| Brazilosaurus Temporal range:
Early Permian,
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| Holotype specimen (BSPG 1965 I 131) | |
Scientific classification
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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
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Brazilosaurus is an extinct genus of mesosaur 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 species is Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis. [1]
Brazilosaurus is not to be confused with the archosaur Brasileosaurus.
References
- ^ T. Shikama and H. Ozaki (1966). "On a Reptilian Skeleton from the Palaeozoic Formation of San Paulo, Brazil". Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series. 64: 351–358.
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