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 Temporal range: Late Triassic ~221.5–205.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Humeral osteohistology of I. hernandezi[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	Cynodontia
Family:	†Tritheledontidae
Genus:	†Irajatherium Bonaparte 2005
Type species
Irajatherium hernandezi Bonaparte 2005
Species
I. hernandezi Bonaparte 2005

Species

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]