Candelariodon

Candelariodon
Temporal range: LadinianCarnian
~242–235 Ma
Holotype fossil of C. barberenai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Probainognathia
Genus: Candelariodon
de Oliveira et al., 2011
Species:
C. barberenai
Binomial name
Candelariodon barberenai
de Oliveira et al., 2011

Candelariodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous probainognathian cynodonts from the Middle to Late 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]

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