Irajatherium
| Irajatherium Temporal range: Late Triassic
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| Humeral osteohistology of I. hernandezi[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Tritheledontidae |
| Genus: | †Irajatherium Bonaparte 2005 |
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| Irajatherium hernandezi Bonaparte 2005
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Irajatherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts, known only of the type species Irajatherium hernandezi.[2] It is named in honor of Irajá Damiani Pinto.
Species
Irajatherium hernandezi is a species known only by a humerus, a femur, two jaws and an upper arch incomplete, has the upper canine teeth after pills across and the post-mandibular canines with a more developed central cusp, followed by three smaller ones. It was collected in the Candelária Formation in the municipality of Faxinal do Soturno in the Paraná Basin of southeastern Brazil.[3]
References
- ^ Botha-Brink, 2018, p.11
- ^ Martinelli et al., 2005
- ^ Revista Ciência Hoje Archived 2010-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
- Botha-Brink, Jennifer; Marina Bento Soares, and Agustín G. Martinelli. 2018. Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil. PeerJ 5029. 1–26. Accessed 2019-03-25.
- Martinelli, A.G.; J.F. Bonaparte; C.L. Schultz, and R. Rubert. 2005. A new tritheledontid (Therapsid, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and its phylogenetic relationships among carnivorous non-mammalian eucynodonts. Ameghiniana 42(1). 191–208. Accessed 2019-03-26.
External links
- Dinosaurs of Rio Grande do Sul
- Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia
- Figura
