Irajatherium

Extinct genus of cynodonts

Irajatherium
Temporal range: Late Triassic
~221.5–205.6 Ma
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Humeral osteohistology of I. hernandezi[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Tritheledontidae
Genus: Irajatherium
Bonaparte 2005
Type species
Irajatherium hernandezi
Species

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

  1. ^ Botha-Brink, 2018, p.11
  2. ^ Martinelli et al., 2005
  3. ^ Revista Ciência Hoje Archived 2010-10-10 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

  • Botha-Brink, Jennifer; Bento Soares, Marina; Martinelli, Agustín G. (2018), "Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil" (PDF), PeerJ, 5029: 1–26, retrieved 2019-03-25
  • Martinelli, A.G.; Bonaparte, J.F.; Schultz, C.L.; Rubert, R. (2005), "A new tritheledontid (Therapsid, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and its phylogenetic relationships among carnivorous non-mammalian eucynodonts" (PDF), Ameghiniana, 42 (1): 191–208, retrieved 2019-03-26

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See also
Incertae sedis
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