Soturnia

Soturnia
Temporal range: Late Triassic
~221.5–205.6 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Clade:Parareptilia
Order:Procolophonomorpha
Family:Procolophonidae
Tribe:Leptopleuronini
Genus:Soturnia
Cisneros & Schultz, 2003
Type species
Soturnia caliodon
Cisneros & Schultz, 2003

Soturnia is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile. It is known from rocks of the Late Triassic-age Caturrita Formation of the municipality of Faxinal do Soturno in the geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil. Soturnia was named in 2003 by Cisneros and Schultz; the type species is S. caliodon. It was a leptopleuroninae procolophonid.[1]

References

  1. Cisneros, J.C.; and Schultz, C.L. (2003). "Soturnia caliodon n. g. n. sp., a procolophonid reptile from the upper Triassic of Southern Brazil". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227(3):365–380.


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