Genus
Valid Extinct

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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Placodontia Order
Henodontida Suborder
Henodontidae Family
Parahenodus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Keuper
1
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Parahenodus atancensis 237 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
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 ↗
Bibliography (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 ↗