Impidens
Name: Impidens
(combat tooth).
Phonetic: Imp-e-denz
Named By: Frederick Tolchard, Christian F.
Kammerer, Richard J. Butler, Christophe Hendrickx, Julien
Benoit, Fernando Abdala & Jonah N. Choiniere - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia, Trirachodontidae.
Species: I. hancoxi (type).
Diet: Carnivore/Omnivore?
Size: Skull at least 40 centimetres long.
Known locations: Antarctica. South Africa.
Time period: Mid Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skulls.
Impidens
is a genus of cynodont that lived during the Mid Triassic.
Further reading
- A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its
implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy. - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology. - Frederick Tolchard, Christian F. Kammerer,
Richard J. Butler, Christophe Hendrickx, Julien Benoit,
Fernando Abdala & Jonah N. Choiniere - 2021.
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