Candelaria barbouri

Candelaria barbouri
Temporal range: Ladinian
~242–235 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Owenettidae
Genus: Candelaria
Price, 1947
Species:
C. barbouri
Binomial name
Candelaria barbouri
Price, 1947

Candelaria is an extinct genus of owenettid parareptile. It was the first procolophonomorph 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 mandible has been measured at 20 millimetres (0.79 in) in height.[3] It was about 40 centimetres (16 in) long[citation needed] and lived during the Ladinian in the Middle Triassic, from about 242 to 235 million years ago.[2]

  1. ^ Cisneros et al. 2004, pp. 1541.
  2. ^ a b "Candelaria". Paleobiology Database.
  3. ^ Cisneros et al. 2004, pp. 1542.