Candelariodon

Candelariodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodonts from the Middle Triassic Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Candelariodon is known from a partial mandible having some complete teeth. It was first named by Téo Veiga De Oliveira, Cesar Leandro Schultz, Marina Bento Soares and Carlos Nunes Rodrigues in 2011 and the type species is Candelariodon barberenai.[1]

Candelariodon
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
~242–235 Ma
Holotype fossil of C. barberenai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Genus: †Candelariodon
De Oliveira et al. 2011
Species:
†C. barberenai
Binomial name
†Candelariodon barberenai
De Oliveira et al. 2011

Description
Lower postcanine dentition of C. barberenai

The holotype (MMACR PV-0001-T) of Candelariodon barberenai comes from the Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Pinheros-Chiniquá Sequence, Santa Maria Supersequence. It corresponds to the lower portion of the traditional Santa Maria Formation and the Santa Maria 1 Sequence of Zerfass et al. (2003). The outcrop that yielded MMACR PV-0001-T is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Candelária, Rio Grande do Sul, southeastern Brazil, in the Pinheiro, an area in which several tetrapods characteristic of the Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone have been discovered.[2]

References
  1. De Oliveira et al., 2011
  2. Martinelli et al., 2017, p.528

Bibliography
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