Nooxobeia Temporal range:
Early Permian,
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Life restoration of Nooxobeia gracilis (right) based on specimen UCLA VP 3066. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Temnospondyli |
Family: | † Dissorophidae |
Genus: | †
Nooxobeia Gee, Scott & Reisz, 2018 |
Type species | |
†Nooxobeia gracilis Gee, Scott & Reisz, 2018
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Nooxobeia is an extinct genus of dissorophid temnospondyl from the Early Permian ( Guadalupian) of Oklahoma. The generic name is derived from the Arapaho (a language spoken in the type locality of the holotype) word nooxobe, which means frog. [1]
Olson (1972) referred a complete dissorophid specimen (UCLA VP 3066) from the Chickasha Formation of Oklahoma to Fayella chickashaensis based on cranial similarities to the holotype. [2] However, in 2018, Gee, Scott and Reisz declared Fayella a nomen dubium and an indeterminate temnospondyl, and made UCLA VP 3066 the holotype of the new species Nooxobeia gracilis. [1]
Nooxobeia Temporal range:
Early Permian,
| |
---|---|
Life restoration of Nooxobeia gracilis (right) based on specimen UCLA VP 3066. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Temnospondyli |
Family: | † Dissorophidae |
Genus: | †
Nooxobeia Gee, Scott & Reisz, 2018 |
Type species | |
†Nooxobeia gracilis Gee, Scott & Reisz, 2018
|
Nooxobeia is an extinct genus of dissorophid temnospondyl from the Early Permian ( Guadalupian) of Oklahoma. The generic name is derived from the Arapaho (a language spoken in the type locality of the holotype) word nooxobe, which means frog. [1]
Olson (1972) referred a complete dissorophid specimen (UCLA VP 3066) from the Chickasha Formation of Oklahoma to Fayella chickashaensis based on cranial similarities to the holotype. [2] However, in 2018, Gee, Scott and Reisz declared Fayella a nomen dubium and an indeterminate temnospondyl, and made UCLA VP 3066 the holotype of the new species Nooxobeia gracilis. [1]