Irajatherium
Sign in to saveIrajatherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts, known only of the type species Irajatherium hernandezi. It is named in honor of Irajá Damiani Pinto.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Tritheledontidae
- Image
- Humeral osteohistology of Irajatherium hernandezi.png
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Irajatherium
- start time
- 221500000-
- end time
- 205600000-
- Commons category
- Irajatherium
- time period
- Late Triassic
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Irajatherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts, known only of the type species Irajatherium hernandezi. 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.
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