Genre
Valide Éteint

Parahenodus

Miguel Chaves et al. 2018

Parahenodus is an extinct genus of henodontid placodont only known from a skull, discovered between 2008 and 2015 and described in 2018. It lived during the Late Triassic (Carnian–Norian). The skull, named and described as Parahenodus atancensis, was discovered in Keuper Facies of the Castilian Branche of the Iberian Range in the reservoir of El Atance. It was the sister taxon to Henodus.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
1
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Marin
Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
Placodontia Ordre
Henodontida Sous-ordre
Henodontidae Famille
Parahenodus Genre
Sites de découverte 1 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇪🇸 Espagne
1
Formations géologiques
Keuper
1
Distribution temporelle
Norien (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Espèces (1)
Parahenodus atancensis 237 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
C. Miguel Chaves, F. Ortega, and A. Perez-Garcia. 2018. A new placodont from the Upper Triassic of Spain provides new insights on the acquisition of the specialized skull of Henodontidae. Papers in Palaeontology 4(4):567-576 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (1)
C. Miguel Chaves, F. Ortega, and A. Perez-Garcia. 2018. A new placodont from the Upper Triassic of Spain provides new insights on the acquisition of the specialized skull of Henodontidae. Papers in Palaeontology 4(4):567-576 DOI ↗