Cerritosaurus
| Cerritosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Proterochampsia |
| Family: | †Proterochampsidae |
| Genus: | †Cerritosaurus Price, 1946 |
| Type species | |
| †Cerritosaurus binsfeldi Price, 1946
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Cerritosaurus is a genus of proterochampsid archosauromorph from the Late Triassic. It has been found in the Santa Maria Formation, in the Geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil. It is represented by one species.[1]
It was collected in 1941 by Antonio Binsfeld, in Sanga da Alemoa. Nearby, there is a small mountain called the Cerrito, after which the genus is named.
References[]
- ^ Cerritosaurus at Fossilworks.org
Further reading[]
- The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary by Kevin Padian
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Categories:
- Proterochampsians
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Carnian genera
- Norian genera
- Late Triassic reptiles of South America
- Triassic Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Santa Maria Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1946
- Taxa named by Llewellyn Ivor Price
- Triassic reptile stubs