Irajatherium

Irajatherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts, known only of the type species Irajatherium hernandezi.^[2] It is named in honor of Irajá Damiani Pinto.

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.^[3]

• Botha-Brink, Jennifer; Bento Soares, Marina; Martinelli, Agustín G. (2018), "Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil" (PDF), PeerJ, 5029: 1–26, retrieved 2019-03-25
• Martinelli, A.G.; Bonaparte, J.F.; Schultz, C.L.; Rubert, R. (2005), "A new tritheledontid (Therapsid, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and its phylogenetic relationships among carnivorous non-mammalian eucynodonts" (PDF), Ameghiniana, 42 (1): 191–208, retrieved 2019-03-26

• Dinosaurs of Rio Grande do Sul
• Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia
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