Stahleckeria
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Artistic reconstruction of live Stahleckeria potens
- Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil )
Stahleckeria was a Therapside (formerly mammal -like reptiles called ) which occurred in the late Middle Triassic, about 240 million years ago in South America. Fossils of the species were found in southern Brazil, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the Middle Triassic Santa Maria Formation. The only valid type is Stahleckeria potens, which was described in 1935 by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene vertebrate, in his time the leading expert on fossil reptiles in Europe. Another way Stahleckeria lenzii was described in 1944 by the American paleontologist Alfred S. Romer and his Brazilian colleagues Llewellyn Ivor Price, but later synonymized with Stahleckeria potens. Stahleckeria was about 3 m long.
A fossil skeleton is now in the Paleontological Collection of the Museum of the University of Tübingen. The huge Dicynodont is a distant relative of today's mammals and was 80 years ago by the Tübingen paleontologist Friedrich Baron Hoyningen - called Friedrich von Huene - along with his student Rudolf Stahlecker excavated in 2000 meters altitude on a fazenda in Brazil and named after the latter.
The Paleontological and Archaeological Museum Walter Ilha on the Paleorrota in São Pedro do Sul was not long in possession of found there Stahleckeria - exhibit. However, this changed on April 5, 2009: During the award ceremony of the Tübingen scientists Rainer Radtke handed one drawn up by the Tübingen taxidermist Astrid Preuschoft - Güttler cast of the skull at the museum. Support offered by the Tübingen Unibund, the support group "Friends of the paleontological collection " as well as the Stihl, Waiblingen and São Leopoldo, near Porto Alegre.