Parapytanga
Name:
Parapytanga.
Phonetic: Pah-rap-e-tan-gah.
Named By: A. Strapasson, F. L. Pinheiro
& M. B. Soares - 2015.
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia,
Temnospondyli, Stereospondylomorpha.
Species: P. catarinensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Uncertain, but at least a meter long.
Known locations: Brazil - Rio do Rasto Formation.
Time period: Roadian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial remains.
Parapytanga
is a genus of temnospondul amphibian that lived in South America during
the late Permian. Although fossil remains are partial and
fragmentary, Parapytanga may have grown to a
meter or more in
length, suggesting that Parapytanga would have
been a predator of
smaller creatures.
Further reading
- On a New Stereospondylomorph Temnospondyl from the Middle—Late
Permian of Southern Brazil. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
60(4):843-855. - A. Strapasson, F. L. Pinheiro
& M. B. Soares - 2015.
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