Genus: Botucaraitherium SOARES, MARTINELLI, & OLIVEIRA, 2014
Etymology: Botucarai, in reference to the Botucarai Hill, which dominates the landscape of the Candelary City (state of Rio Grande do Sul) and where thre are several outcrops with Triassic fauna. In one of these outcrops, Botucarai Hill site (sensu Bittencourt et al., 2013) the holotye type was found. And Therium, from the New Latin, that derives from the Greek therion, "beast", frequently used in mammals nad close relative forms.

Species: belarminoi SOARES, MARTINELLI, & OLIVEIRA, 2014
Etymology: In honor of Mr. Belarmino Stefanello, a volunteer at the Museu Municipal Aristides Carlos Rodrigues, who found the fossil.

Holotype: MACR-PV-003-T

Locality: Botucarai Hill site (sensu Bittencourt et al., 2013), 8 km west of Candelaria City, in a roadcut of the route BR-287, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil.

Horizon: Candelaria sequence, Sanda Maria Supersequence.

Biostratigraphy: Riograndia Animal Zone.

Age: Possibly Early Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Left lower jaw, without postdentary bones, bearing the root of last incisor, the canine, and four partially preserved postcanines plus one partial crown inside the dentary (not erupted), adn two left maxillary fragments, one with a broken canine and the other with one postcanine and the root of the following two teeth.