Soturnia Temporal range: Late Triassic ~ | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
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]