Brazilosaurus

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Brazilosaurus
Temporal range: Early Permian, 284–279.5 Ma
File:Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis.jpg
Holotype specimen (BSPG 1965 I 131)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Parareptilia
Order: Mesosauria
Family: Mesosauridae
Genus: Brazilosaurus
Shikama & Ozaki, 1966
Type species
Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis
Shikama & Ozaki, 1966

Brazilosaurus is an extinct genus of mesosaur which lived during the early Permian (Artinskian stage) of what is now Brazil. It is known from specimen BSPG 1965 I 131, a single skeleton recovered from the Assistencia Member of the Irati Formation (Hanayama Farm, Tatuí, São Paulo), in the Paraná Basin. It was named by T. Shikama and H. Ozaki in 1966 and the type species is Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis.[1]

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