''Botucaraitherium'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of prozostrodontian

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 Carnian ''Riograndia'' Assemblage Zone in the 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 southeastern Brazil. It is known from a single

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

, ''Botucaraitherium belarminoi''. The genus name is derived from the Botucaraí Hill, which dominates the landscape of Candelária,

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

.Soares et al., 2014, p.1677 The species

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honors Belarmino Stefanello, a volunteer at the Museu Municipal Aristides Carlos Rodrigues, who found the fossil.Soares et al., 2014, p.1678

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* Prehistoric prozostrodonts Prehistoric cynodont genera Carnian genera Late Triassic synapsids of South America Triassic Brazil Fossils of Brazil Paraná Basin Fossil taxa described in 2014 {{Paleo-therapsid-stub