''Soturnia'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

procolophonid Procolophonidae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like parareptiles known from the Late Permian to Late Triassic that were distributed across Pangaea, having been reported from Europe, North America, China, South Africa, South America, Antarc ...

parareptile Parareptilia ("at the side of reptiles") is a subclass or clade of basal sauropsids (reptiles), typically considered the sister taxon to Eureptilia (the group that likely contains all living reptiles and birds). Parareptiles first arose near th ...

. It is known from rocks of the

Late Triassic The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch and followed by the Early Jurassic Epoch. ...

-age

Caturrita Formation The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation is from the Upper Triassic and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of th ...

of the municipality of Faxinal do Soturno in the

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of Paleorrota,

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. ''Soturnia'' was named in 2003 by Cisneros and Schultz; the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

is ''S. caliodon''. It was a

leptopleuroninae Leptopleuroninae is an extinct subfamily of procolophonid Procolophonidae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like parareptiles known from the Late Permian to Late Triassic that were distributed across Pangaea, having been reported from Eu ...

procolophonid.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.

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''Soturnia''
in the

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Leptopleuronines Triassic parareptiles Late Triassic reptiles of South America Triassic Brazil Fossils of Brazil Paraná Basin Fossil taxa described in 2003 Prehistoric reptile genera {{triassic-reptile-stub