Ingentidens

Ingentidens; Temporal range: Upper Permian, Roadian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Type jaw, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Reptiliomorpha (?)
Order:	† Chroniosuchia
Family:	† Chroniosuchidae
Genus:	† Ingentidens ; Li & Cheng, 1999
Species
	† I. corridoricus Li & Cheng, 1999 (type);

Last updated March 31, 2025

Ingentidens is an extinct genus of chroniosuchid reptiliomorph from upper Permian (upper Roadian age) mudstone deposits of Dashankou locality, Xidagou Formation of China.^[1] It was first named by Jin-Ling Li and Zheng-Wu Cheng in 1999, from a mandible (IGCAGS V 363). The type species is Ingentidens corridoricus. The generic name means “large” (Inget in Latin) + “tooth” (dens), and the specific name referring to the region of Gansu, the Hexi Corridor where the type specimen was found.^[1]

References

1 2 Jin-Ling Li; Zheng-Wu Cheng (1999). "New Anthracosaur and Temnospondyl Amphibians from Gansu, China - The Fifth Report on Late Permian Dashankou Lower Tetrapod Fauna" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 37 (3): 234–247.

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[Li&Cheng99-1] 1 2 Jin-Ling Li; Zheng-Wu Cheng (1999). "New Anthracosaur and Temnospondyl Amphibians from Gansu, China - The Fifth Report on Late Permian Dashankou Lower Tetrapod Fauna" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 37 (3): 234–247.

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