''Agudotherium'' is an extinct genus of

prozostrodontia Prozostrodontia is a clade of cynodonts including mammaliaforms and their closest relatives such as Tritheledontidae and Tritylodontidae. It was erected as a node-based taxon by Liu and Olsen (2010) and defined as the least inclusive clade cont ...

cynodont The cynodonts () (clade Cynodontia) are a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Cynodonts had a wide variety ...

s from the

Late Triassic The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch (geology), epoch of the Triassic geologic time scale, Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between annum, Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch ...

Candelária Formation of the

Paraná Basin The Paraná Basin ( pt, Bacia do Paraná, es, Cuenca del Paraná) is a large cratonic sedimentary basin situated in the central-eastern part of South America. About 75% of its areal distribution occurs in Brazil, from Mato Grosso to Rio Grande d ...

in southern Brazil. The genus contains one species, ''Agudotherium gassenae''. ''A. gassenae'' is known from two specimens, both consisting of partial lower jaws with teeth.

Etymology

The generic name ''Agudotherium'' comes from the municipality of

Agudo, Rio Grande do Sul Agudo is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. Location Agudo is 83 meters above sea level. The total area is 553,1 km² and the population was estimated at 16,401 in 2020. The municipality contains part of ...

, where the fossils were discovered, and the Greek word (), meaning "beast".

References

Prehistoric prozostrodonts Prehistoric cynodont genera Norian genera Late Triassic synapsids of South America Triassic Brazil Fossils of Brazil Paraná Basin Fossil taxa described in 2020 {{Paleo-therapsid-stub