Fayella

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

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

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Taxonomy

The holotype of Fayella chickashaensis, FMNH UR 1004, comprises a brain case with part of basicranium, 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]

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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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