Ingentidens
Ingentidens Temporal range: Upper Permian,
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Type jaw, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
Order: | †Chroniosuchia |
Family: | †Chroniosuchidae |
Genus: | †Ingentidens Li & Cheng, 1999 |
Species | |
Ingentidens is an extinct genus of chroniosuchid reptiliomorph from upper Permian (upper Roadian age) mudstone deposits of locality, Xidagou Formation of China.[1] It was first named by Jin-Ling Li and Zheng-Wu Cheng in 1999, from a mandible (IGCAGS V 363). The type species is Ingentidens corridoricus. The generic name means “large” (Inget in Latin) + “tooth” (dens), and the specific name referring to the region of Gansu, the Hexi Corridor where the type specimen was found.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Jin-Ling Li and Zheng-Wu Cheng (1999). "New Anthracosaur and Temnospondyl Amphibians from Gansu, China - The Fifth Report on Late Permian Dashankou Lower Tetrapod Fauna" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 37 (3): 234–247.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Categories:
- Chroniosuchians
- Permian tetrapods of Asia
- Prehistoric tetrapod genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1999
- Fossils of China
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs