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''Sangaia'' is an
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of rhytidosteid
temnospondyl Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinth ...
from the early
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of
Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, ; ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, fifth-most populous state and the List of Brazilian s ...
,
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
. It is known from the
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UMVT 4302, the left half of a partial
skull The skull, or cranium, is typically a bony enclosure around the brain of a vertebrate. In some fish, and amphibians, the skull is of cartilage. The skull is at the head end of the vertebrate. In the human, the skull comprises two prominent ...
, a partial palate, from the paratype UMVT 4303, a partial right palatal fragment and from the referred specimens PV 0497 T and MCN PV 2606, skull fragments, recovered from the
Sanga do Cabral Formation The Sanga do Cabral Formation is an Early Triassic sedimentary rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Rośario do Sul Group.


Taxonomy

This taxon originally was named ''Cabralia lavinai'' by Sérgio Dias-da-Silva, Claudia Marsicano and Cesar Leandro Schultz in
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but this name was preoccupied by the Brazilian moth '' Cabralia'' (Moore, 1882). Thus, Dias-da-Silva and Marsicano proposed ''Sangaia'' as a replacement generic name later in 2006.


References

Triassic temnospondyls of South America Triassic Brazil Fossils of Brazil Fossil taxa described in 2006 {{temnospondyli-stub