#SATURNALIA TUPINIQUIM SERIES#

The newly described elements allowed estimating the cranial length of Saturnalia and provide additional support for the presence of a reduced skull (i.e. Here, we describe the skull bones of one of its paratypes (only in the type-series to possess such remains) based on CT Scan data.

#SATURNALIA TUPINIQUIM SERIES#

The osteology of Saturnalia has been described in a series of papers, but its cranial anatomy remains mostly unknown. Due to its phylogenetic position and age, it is important for studies focusing on the early evolution of both dinosaurs and sauropodomorphs. Pubis of Saturnalia tupinquim researchgate.Saturnalia tupiniquim is a sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic (CarnianвЂ“c.The primitive nature of Saturnalia, combined with its mixture of sauropodomorph and theropod characteristics, has made it difficult to classify. Saturnalia tupiniquim (nonfiction) - an extinct genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil and Pebbly Arkose Formation, Zimbabwe.Pubis (bone) (nonfiction) - in vertebrates, the pubic bone is the ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis.Guaibasauridae (nonfiction) - a family of basal saurischian dinosaurs, known from fossil remains of late Triassic period formations in Brazil and Argentina.Sexual Fetishes of the Basal Sauropodomorphs.Pubis of Saturnalia tupinquim (social media post). However, all more recent cladistic analyses found it to be a very basal sauropodomorph, possibly Guaibasauridae, as the family was found to nest in a basal position within Sauropodomorpha. Overall, Bonaparte found that both Saturnalia and Guaibasaurus were more theropod-like than prosauropod-like. Like Langer, Bonaparte found that these forms may have been primitive sauropodomorphs, or an assemblage of forms close to the common ancestor of the sauropodomorphs and theropods. Bonaparte placed the two in the same family, Guaibasauridae. JosГ© Bonaparte and colleagues, in a 2007 study, found Saturnalia to be very similar to the primitive saurischian Guaibasaurus. However, in a 2003 paper, Langer noted that features of its skull and hand were more similar to the theropods, and that Saturnalia could at best be considered a member of the sauropodomorph 'stem-lineage', rather than a true member of that group. Paleontologist Max Cardoso Langer and colleagues, in their 1999 description of the genus, assigned it to the Sauropodomorpha. The specific name is derived from Portuguese and Guarani word meaning native. The generic name is derived from Saturnalia, Latin for 'Carnival', in reference to the discovery of the paratypes during the feasting period. Benton in 1999 and the type species is Saturnalia tupiniquim. Langer, Fernando Abdala, Martha Richter, Michael J. A U-Pb (Uranium decay) dating found that the Santa Maria Formation dated around 233.23 million years ago, putting it 1.5 million years older than the Ischigualasto Formation, and making the two formations approximately equal as the earliest dinosaur localities. It probably grew to about 1.5 meters (5 ft) long. It is one of the oldest true dinosaurs yet found.

A partial femur from the Carnian Pebbly Arkose Formation of Zimbabwe is also attributed to the genus. All specimen were collected in the 'Wald-Sanga' (also known as 'Sanga do Mato') locality from the Alemoa Member of the Santa Maria Formation (RosГЎrio do Sul Group), dating to the Carnian faunal stage of the early Late Triassic, about 228 million years ago. The two paratypes are MCP 3845-PV, partial skeleton including natural cast of partial mandible with teeth and some postcranial remains, and MCP 3846-PV, partial skeleton including postcranial remains. The holotype, MCP 3844-PV, a well-preserved semi-articulated postcranial skeleton, was discovered in mid-summer at Sanga da Alemoa, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, in the geopark of Paleorrota.

Saturnalia was originally named on the basis of three partial skeletons. Saturnalia is an extinct genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil and Pebbly Arkose Formation, Zimbabwe.