Fayella

Fayella is an extinct genus of dubious temnospondyl from the Early Permian (Guadalupian) of Oklahoma.[1]

Fayella
Temporal range: Early Permian, 271 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Family: †Dissorophidae
Genus: †Fayella
Olson, 1965
Species
  • †F. chickashaensis Olson, 1965 (type)

Taxonomy

The holotype of Fayella chickashaensis, FMNH UR 1004, comprises a brain case with part of basicraium, basipterygoid processes, and part of otic complex. It was found in the Chickasha Formation of Oklahoma.[2] Olson (1972) referred a complete specimen (UCLA VP 3066) to Fayella based on cranial similarities.[3] However, Gee et al. (2018) declared Fayella a nomen dubium, assigning it to Temnospondyli indeterminate and coining Nooxobeia for UCLA VP 3066, which is definitely a dissorophid.[4]

See also
  • Prehistoric amphibian
  • List of prehistoric amphibians

References
  1. Morphology and Biology of Reptiles (Linnean Society of London by Academic Press, 1976), page 11.
  2. Olson, E. C., 1965, New Permian Vertebrates from the Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, c. 70, p. 1-70.
  3. Olson, E. C., 1972, Fayella chickashaensis, the dissorophoid and the Permian Terrestrial Radiations: Journal of Paleontology, v. 46, n. 1, p. 104-114.
  4. Bryan M. Gee; Diane Scott; Robert R. Reisz (2018). "Reappraisal of the Permian dissorophid Fayella chickashaensis". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55 (10): 1103–1114. doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0053.


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