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Candelaria barbouri

Reptilia - Owenettidae

Taxonomy

Candelaria barbouri was named by Price (1947). Its type specimen is DGM 314R, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sanga Pinheiros, unknown locality, which is in a Ladinian fluvial mudstone/sandstone in the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Candelaria.

Year	Name and author
1947	Candelaria barbouri Price pp. 10, 19 figs. Pls. I & II
2004	Candelaria barbouri Cisneros et al. p. 1542 fig. 1

Reference	Diagnosis
L. I. Price 1947	same as for genus
J. C. Cisneros et al. 2004	Candelaria barbouri is distinguished from all other owenettids by its relatively large size (at least 30% larger than all other known owenettid specimens) and by a suite of characters related to the presence of a temporal fenestra (figure 1): (i) posterior process of the postorbital present, which extends well into the supratemporal; (ii) lateral notch of supratemporal absent; (iii) thin concave temporal bar present posterior to the orbitotemporal fenestra; (iv) supratemporal expanded ventrally; (v) squamosal dorsoventrally narrow but anteroposteriorly elongate.