Candelariodon
Candelariodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous probainognathian cynodonts from the Middle to Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. "Candelariodon" is known from a partial mandible having some complete 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". 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 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. 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: