Candelaria (reptile)
Candelaria is an extinct genus of owenettid parareptile. It was the first procolomorph discovered in the Santa Maria Formation at the geopark of Paleorrota, in the town of Candelária, by Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1942 and described in 1947.[1][2] The skull and mandibule has been measured at 20 millimetres (0.79 in) in height.[3] It was about 40 centimetres (16 in) long and lived during the Ladinian in the Middle Triassic, from about 242 to 235 million years ago.[2]
| Candelaria | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Owenettidae |
| Genus: | †Candelaria Price 1947 |
| Type species | |
| †Candelaria barbouri Price 1947 | |
References
- Cisneros et al., 2004, p.1541
- Candelaria at Fossilworks.org
- Cisneros et al., 2004, p.1542
Bibliography
- Cisneros, Juan C.; Ross Damiani; Cesar Schultz; Átila Da Rosa; Cibele Schwanke; Leonardo W. Neto, and Pedro L.P. Aurélio. 2004. A procolophonoid reptile with temporal fenestration from the Middle Triassic of Brazil. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 271. 1541–1546. Accessed 2017-10-15.
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