page_title: Paleontological Site Chiniquá
hierarchical_section_title: Paleontological Site Chiniquá
caption_attribution_description: English: Stahleckeria potens was first collected by paleontologist Rudolf Stahlecker during an expedition led by paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in the late 1920s, in Paleontological Site Chiniquá, today located on geopark of paleorrota in Brazil.
context_page_description: The Palaeontological Site Chiniquá is located in the Brazilian municipality of São Pedro do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, along highway BR-287, about 70 kilometers west of the city of Santa Maria. The site occupies an area of about 250 hectares and is part of the geopark of paleorrota. It yielded fossils of Middle Triassic age.
context_section_description: The Palaeontological Site Chiniquá is located in the Brazilian municipality of São Pedro do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, along highway BR-287, about 70 kilometers west of the city of Santa Maria. The site occupies an area of about 250 hectares and is part of the geopark of paleorrota. It yielded fossils of Middle Triassic (Ladinian) age.
caption: Mounted skeleton of Stahleckeria, a dicynodont therapsid recovered from Chiniquá in the 1920s by German paleontologists, in the University of Tübingen (1935).
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