Tiarajudens
Tiarajudens (said: Te-ah-ra-yu-dens) (modern, international spelling: tɪjɑ́ːrə ʤʉ́w dɛ́nz) ("Tiaraju tooth") is an extinct genus of saber-toothed herbivorous anomodonts which lived during the Middle Permian period (Capitanian stage) in what is now Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is known from the holotype UFRGS PV393P, a nearly complete skull. The type species T. eccentricus was named in 2011.
| Tiarajudens Temporal range: Capitanian ~ | |
|---|---|
| Diagram skeleton of T. eccentricus. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Anomocephaloidea |
| Genus: | †Tiarajudens Cisneros et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †T. eccentricus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tiarajudens eccentricus Cisneros et al., 2011 | |
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