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Paleontological Site Jazigo Cinco is located in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul,
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 ...
. And belongs to
Santa Maria Formation The Santa Maria Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is primarily Carnian in age (Late Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of cynodonts, "rauisuchian" pseudosuchians, and early dinosaurs and other ...
. It is located in the neighborhood Kilometro 3 near Castelinho, is to 2.7 kilometers away from the
Paleontological Site Arroio Cancela The Paleontological Site Arroio Cancela is located within the city of Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul), Santa Maria, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. The site is situated in the neighbourhood ''Nossa Senhora de ...
. It belongs to
UFSM The Federal University of Santa Maria ( pt, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, UFSM) is a Brazilian public university located in Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, funded by the federal government of Brazil. It was founded in ...
(Federal University of Santa Maria) and is a center of research. It is the place where he was collecting the Staurikosaurus, the first Brazilian dinosaur. Site belongs to the region paleorrota.


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*Paleorrota Geopark *
Paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
Paleontological sites of Brazil Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul Mesozoic paleontological sites of South America Triassic paleontological sites {{Brazil-protected-area-stub