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Brasilitherium

Index Brasilitherium

Brasilitherium ("Brazilian beast") is an extinct genus of cynodonts that lived during the Middle to Late Triassic in what is now Brazil. [1]

23 relations: Base of skull, Brasilodon, Brazil, Caturrita Formation, Cynodont, Geopark, Insect, Insectivore, Late Triassic, List of commonly used taxonomic affixes, Mammaliaformes, Middle Triassic, Mudstone, Olfactory bulb, Portuguese language, Quadrate bone, Sandstone, Secondary palate, South Region, Brazil, Thrinaxodon, Tritheledontidae, Vomer, 2003 in paleontology.

Base of skull

The base of skull is the most inferior area of the skull.

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Brasilodon

Brasilodon ("Brazil tooth") is an extinct genus of cynodonts that lived during the Norian age of the Late Triassic Period, about 228 to 208.5 million years ago.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Caturrita Formation

The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Cynodont

The cynodonts ("dog teeth") (clade Cynodontia) are therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 Ma).

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Geopark

A geopark is a unified area that advances the protection and use of geological heritage in a sustainable way, and promotes the economic well-being of the people who live there.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Insectivore

robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.

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List of commonly used taxonomic affixes

This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations.

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Mammaliaformes

Mammaliaformes ("mammal-shaped") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts.

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Middle Triassic

In the geologic timescale, the Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period or the middle of three series in which the Triassic system is divided.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Olfactory bulb

The olfactory bulb (bulbus olfactorius) is a neural structure of the vertebrate forebrain involved in olfaction, the sense of smell.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Quadrate bone

The quadrate bone is part of a skull in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Secondary palate

The secondary palate is an anatomical structure that divides the nasal cavity from the oral cavity in many vertebrates.

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South Region, Brazil

The South Region of Brazil (Região Sul do Brasil) is one of the five regions of Brazil.

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Thrinaxodon

Thrinaxodon is an extinct genus of cynodonts, most commonly regarded by its species T. liorhinus which lived in what are now South Africa and Antarctica.

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Tritheledontidae

The Tritheledontidae or tritheledontids, also known as ictidosaurs, is an extinct family of small to medium-sized (about 10 or 20 cm long) cynodonts.

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Vomer

The vomer is one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull.

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2003 in paleontology

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Carnepigondolella.

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Brasilitherium riograndensis.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilitherium

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