Irajatherium
(Redirected from Irajatherium hernandezi)
| Irajatherium Temporal range: Late Triassic
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Botha-Brink, 2018, p.11
- ^ Martinelli et al., 2005
- ^ Revista Ciência Hoje Archived 2010-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
[edit]- 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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