Sanga do Cabral Formation

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Sanga do Cabral Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Triassic
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Sanga do Cabral Formation. Source: UFSM
Type Geological formation
Unit of Rosário do Sul Group
Underlies Santa Maria Formation
Overlies Pirambóia Formation
Lithology
Primary Sandstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates 29°36′S55°06′W / 29.6°S 55.1°W / -29.6; -55.1
Approximate paleocoordinates 49°00′S24°36′W / 49.0°S 24.6°W / -49.0; -24.6
RegionPaleorrota
Rio Grande do Sul
Country Brazil
Extent Paraná Basin
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Geopark of Paleorrota

The Sanga do Cabral Formation is an Early Triassic sedimentary rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. [1]

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Description

This rock formation is located in the geopark of Paleorrota, and is located to the south of another geopark. The formation dates to 249 million years ago and belongs to the Lower Triassic. [2]

The Sanga do Cabral Formation is correlated with the "impoverished zone" (Procolophon subzone) of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo Basin of South Africa by some authors on the basis of the abundant records of Procolophon .

Fossil content

Among others, the following fossils have been reported from the formation: [3]

Formations

Formacoes Geologicas Paleorrota.jpg
Geological formations in Rio Grande do Sul:

See also

References

  1. Sanga do Cabral Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. (in Portuguese) Es Sincro Archived May 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Cachoeira do Sul at Fossilworks.org
  4. Pinheiro, Felipe L.; Eltink, Estevan; Paes-Neto, Voltaire D.; Machado, Arielli F.; Simões, Tiago R.; Pierce, Stephanie E. (2024-01-19). "Interrelationships among Early Triassic faunas of Western Gondwana and Laurasia as illuminated by a new South American benthosuchid temnospondyl" . The Anatomical Record. 307 (4): 726–743. doi:10.1002/ar.25384. ISSN   1932-8486. PMID   38240478.
  5. Pinheiro, F. L.; Silva-Neves, E.; Da-Rosa, A. A. (2021). "An early-diverging procolophonid from the lowermost Triassic of South America and the origins of herbivory in Procolophonoidea". Papers in Palaeontology . 7 (3): 1601–1612. Bibcode:2021PPal....7.1601P. doi:10.1002/spp2.1355. S2CID   233797716.
  6. Cisneros & Schultz, 2002
  7. Dias da Silva et al., 2006
  8. Eltink et al., 2017
  9. Dias da Silva & Ramos Ilha, 2009

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