Taubateia Malabarba & Lundberg 2007, new genus

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Type species. Taubateia paraiba, new species.

Diagnosis. Mesethmoid with shallow median cleft, flanked by reduced and anteriorly rounded cornua (Fig. 4); mesethmoid ventral disk small, ball-shaped and subterminal (Fig. 4); mesethmoid shaft wide (Fig. 3a); anterior tip of prevomer forms spike-like sutural joint with mesethmoid (Fig. 3a); posterolateral corner of the lateral ethmoid greatly expanded (Figs. 2, 3a); ventral ridge on lateral ethmoid low and rounded (Figs. 2, 3a); parasphenoid wide and flat (Figs. 2, 3a); pterotic approximately square and widest at ventral margin(Figs. 2, 3a, 5); transverse process of Weberian complex centrum not contacting the ossified transcapular ligament and reaching the border of the pterotic (Fig. 5); ossified transcapular ligament forming a short transverse shelf medially reaching the basiocciptal lateral process (Fig. 5); aortic groove extending at least to the ninth vertebrae (Fig. 3a); absence of pleural ribs posterior to sixth vertebrae (Fig. 2).

Etymology. Taubateia from the name Taubate, in reference to the basin where the fossil comes from, with the suffix “ ia ” from the Latin and Greek, denoting pertaining to; gender feminine.