Skull of Stahleckeria measured 60 centimetres (2 ft) in length.[2] It was a contemporary of the more common Dinodontosaurus. The differences between Stahleckeria and Dinodontosaurus may reflect adaptations to feeding on different plant species.[citation needed]
In 2012, fossils of Stahleckeria potens were described from the Omingonde Formation in Namibia, which like the Santa Maria Formation is Ladinian in age. The Omingonde Formation is part of the Karoo Supergroup, which preserves many Triassic tetrapod fossils in southern Africa but notably lacks fossils in a hiatus called the "Ladinian gap". In addition to the remains of Stahleckeria potens, fossils of the cynodontChiniquodon and an unidentified rauisuchian have also been found in the Omingonde deposits. The presence of these animals in South America and in Africa at the same time is strong evidence that the two continents were once one uninterrupted landmass with a uniform climate and habitat that land animals such as Stahleckeria could travel freely between.[3]
The fossils of Stahleckeria potens discovered in Brazil are currently in Germany in the museum of the University of Tübingen.
^Fernando Abdala; Claudia A. Marsicano; Roger M.H. Smith & Roger Swart (2013). "Strengthening Western Gondwanan correlations: a Brazilian dicynodont (Synapsida, Anomodontia) in the Middle Triassic of Namibia". Gondwana Research. 23 (3): 1151–1162. Bibcode:2013GondR..23.1151A. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.07.011. hdl:11336/11481.
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