期刊
NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN
卷 98, 期 5, 页码 389-395出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0782-3
关键词
Santa Maria Formation; Archosauria; Rauisuchia; Behavior; Middle Triassic
资金
- FAPESP [2007/54695-9, 2009/54645-7]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [09/54645-7] Funding Source: FAPESP
For more than 30 million years, in early Mesozoic Pangea, rauisuchian archosaurs were the apex predators in most terrestrial ecosystems, but their biology and evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We describe a new rauisuchian based on ten individuals found in a single locality from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Santa Maria Formation of southern Brazil. Nine articulated and associated skeletons were discovered, three of which have nearly complete skulls. Along with sedimentological and taphonomic data, this suggests that those highly successful predators exhibited some kind of intraspecific interaction. Other monotaxic assemblages of Triassic archosaurs are Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) in age, approximately 10 million years younger than the material described here. Indeed, the studied assemblage may represent the earliest evidence of gregariousness among archosaurs, adding to our knowledge on the origin of a behavior pattern typical of extant taxa.
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