Candelariodon
| Candelariodon | |
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| Holotype fossil of C. barberenai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida
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| Clade: | Cynodontia
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| Clade: | Probainognathia |
| Genus: | †Candelariodon de Oliveira et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †C. barberenai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Candelariodon barberenai de Oliveira et al., 2011
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Candelariodon is an
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]
Description
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]
Classification
Martinelli et al. (2017) performed a phylogenetic analysis where Candelariodon was recovered as the sister taxon of a clade formed by Protheriodon and Prozostrodontia; a cladogram from that study is shown below:[2]
References
- ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
- ^ . Retrieved 2019-03-25.