Sangaia

Sangaia Temporal range: Early Triassic ~252.3–247.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Sangaia lavinai, at Museum of Geological History of Rio Grande do Sul, found in Rota Paleontológica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Family:	†Rhytidosteidae
Genus:	†Sangaia Dias-da-Silva & Marsicano, 2006
Species
S. lavinai (Dias-da-Silva et al., 2006) (type)
Synonyms
Cabralia lavinai Dias-da-Silva et al., 2006

Sangaia is an extinct genus of rhytidosteid temnospondyl from the early Triassic 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.^[1]