Buriolestes ULBRA-PVT280 and ancestral-diet mapping
The ULBRA-PVT280 holotype preserves a gracile early sauropodomorph with recurved, serrated teeth used in a character-mapped test of ancestral diet.
Represented range233.2–231.4 Ma
RegionsCandelária Sequence, Paraná Basin, Brazil
CladesSauropodomorpha · Saurischia
Claim ledger
ecology · medium
Holotype ULBRA-PVT280 preserves recurved, serrated teeth and a gracile skeleton in a Late Triassic assemblage; the cited matrix maps faunivory near the sauropodomorph root, but neither the diet reconstruction nor the specimen establishes a direct ancestor of herbivorous sauropods.