Agudotherium is an extinct genus of probainognathian cynodonts from the Late Triassic Candelária Formation of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. The genus contains one species, Agudotherium gassenae. A. gassenae is known from three specimens, all consisting of partial lower jaws.[1][2]
| Agudotherium Temporal range: Norian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Prozostrodontia |
| Genus: | †Agudotherium Stefanello et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †A. gassenae
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| †Agudotherium gassenae Stefanello et al., 2020
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Etymology
editThe generic name Agudotherium comes from the municipality of Agudo, Rio Grande do Sul, where the fossils were discovered, and the Greek word thērion (θηρίον), meaning "beast".[2]
References
edit- ^ Kerber, L.; Pretto, F. A.; Müller, R. T. (2023). "New information on the mandibular anatomy of Agudotherium gassenae, a Late Triassic non-mammaliaform probainognathian from Brazil". The Anatomical Record. 307 (4): 1515–1523. doi:10.1002/ar.25317. PMID 37767852.
- ^ a b Stefanello, M.; Kerber, L.; Martinelli, A. G.; Dias-Da-Silva, S. (2020). "A New Prozostrodontian Cynodont (Eucynodontia, Probainognathia) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (3): e1782415. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1782415.
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