Sangaia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Early Triassic]] ~{{Fossil range|252.3|247.2}} | image = Sangaia lavinai.JPG | image_caption = ''Sangaia lavinai'', at [[Museum of Geological History of Rio Grande do Sul]], found in [[Rota Paleontológica]] | taxon = Sangaia | authority = Dias-da-Silva & Marsicano, 2006 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = *''S. lavinai'' (Dias-da-Silva et al., 2006) ([[type species|type]]) | synonyms = *''[[Cabralia]] lavinai'' Dias-da-Silva et al., 2006 }}

'''''Sangaia''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[Rhytidosteidae|rhytidosteid]] [[temnospondyl]] from the early [[Triassic]] [[period (geology)|period]] of [[Rio Grande do Sul]], [[Brazil]]. It is known from the [[holotype]] UMVT 4302, the left half of a partial [[skull]], 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]] in the [[Rośario do Sul Group]].<ref name=DiasdaSilva06a>{{cite journal |author1=Sérgio Dias-da-Silva |author2=Claudia Marsicano |author3=Cesar Leandro Schultz |year=2006a |title=Rhytidosteid temnospondyls in Gondwana: a new taxon from the Lower Triassic of Brazil |journal=Palaeontology |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=381–390 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00545.x |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/93652 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

== Taxonomy == This taxon originally was named ''Cabralia lavinai'' by Sérgio Dias-da-Silva, Claudia Marsicano and Cesar Leandro Schultz in [[2006 in paleontology|2006]] but this name was preoccupied by the Brazilian moth ''[[Cabralia]]'' (Moore, 1882).<ref name=DiasdaSilva06a/> Thus, Dias-da-Silva and Marsicano proposed ''Sangaia'' as a replacement generic name later in 2006.<ref name=DiasdaSilva06b>{{cite journal |author1=Sérgio Dias-da-Silva |author2=Claudia Marsicano |year=2006b |title=''Sangaia'', a replacement generic name for the rhytidosteid temnospondyl ''Cabralia'', a preoccupied name |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=1004 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[1004:SARGNF]2.0.CO;2 |hdl=11336/93007 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

== References == {{Portal|Brazil|Paleontology}} {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of South America]] [[Category:Triassic Brazil]] [[Category:Fossils of Brazil]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2006]]