Biology:Ingentidens
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Short description: Extinct genus of amphibians
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| Type jaw, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
| Order: | †Chroniosuchia |
| Family: | †Chroniosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Ingentidens Li & Cheng, 1999 |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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". Vertebrata PalAsiatica 37 (3): 234–247. http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200812/W020090813369418346132.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q16753948 entry
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