Soturnia Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
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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
- ^ 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.
External links
- Soturnia in the Paleobiology Database
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