Candelaria barbouri explained
Candelaria is an extinct genus of owenettid parareptile. It was the first procolophonomorph discovered in the Santa Maria Formation at the geopark of Paleorrota, in the town of Candelária, by Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1942 and described in 1947. The skull and mandible has been measured at 20mm in height. It was about 40cm (20inches) long and lived during the Ladinian in the Middle Triassic, from about 242 to 235 million years ago.
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- Cisneros . Juan C. . Damiani . Ross . Schultz . Cesar . da Rosa . Átila . Schwanke . Cibele . Neto . Leopoldo W. . Aurélio . Pedro L. P. . A procolophonoid reptile with temporal fenestration from the Middle Triassic of Brazil . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences . 271 . 1547 . 2004-07-22 . 0962-8452 . 15306328 . 1691751 . 10.1098/rspb.2004.2748 . 1541–1546.
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