Riojanodon nenoi Martinelli et al. 2024 (cynodont)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Chiniquodontidae

Full reference: A. G. Martinelli, M. D. Ezcurra, L. E. Fiorelli, J. Escobar, E. M. Hechenleitner, M. B. Baczko, J. R. A. Taborda and J. B. Desojo. 2024. A new early-diverging probainognathian cynodont and a revision of the occurrence of cf. Aleodon from the Chañares Formation, northwestern Argentina: New clues on the faunistic composition of the latest Middle–?earliest Late Triassic Tarjadia Assemblage Zone. The Anatomical Record

Belongs to Riojanodon according to A. G. Martinelli et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CRILAR-Pv 085, a partial skull (anterior portion of lower jaw, with partial dentition, and a complete lower left postcanine tooth). Its type locality is Campo de Córdoba Norte, which is in a Ladinian/Carnian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Chañares Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Campo de Córdoba Norte

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