''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 n ...

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, Antar ...

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 the ...

. It is known from rocks of the

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-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 the ...

of the municipality of

Faxinal do Soturno Faxinal do Soturno is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), located in the South Region of Br ...

in the

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of Paleorrota,

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. ''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 specimen( ...

is ''S. caliodon''. It was a leptopleuroninae 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''
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Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Paleo ...

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