Biology:Cherninia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Capitosauria |
| Family: | †Mastodonsauridae |
| Genus: | †Cherninia Damiani, 2001 |
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Cherninia is an extinct genus of mastodonsaurid temnospondyl. The type species, Cherninia denwai, is known from the Denwa Formation of India . It is based on a massive skull, ISI A 54, which was originally considered a species of Parotosuchus in 1998[1] before being given its own genus in 2001.[2]
Another species, Cherninia megarhina, is known from the Upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia. C. megarhina is based on another large skull, BP/1/4223, which had also been previously referred to Parotosuchus.[2][3][4] Though not as well-preserved as the skull of C. denwai, BP/1/4233 was described earlier in 1974. It was described by Sharon Chernin, a paleontologist at the Bernard Price Institute and the namesake of the genus.[5][6][2]
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- ↑ Mukherjee, Ram Narayan; Sengupta, Dhurjati Prasad (1998-01-01). "New capitosaurid amphibians from the Triassic Denwa Formation of the Satpura Gondwana Basin, central India". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 22 (4): 317–327. doi:10.1080/03115519808619330. ISSN 0311-5518.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Damiani, Ross J. (2001-12-01). "A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli)" (in en). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133 (4): 379–482. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ↑ Damiani, Ross J. (2001). "Cranial anatomy of the giant Middle Triassic temnospondyl Cherninia megarhina and a review of feeding in mastodonsaurids". Palaeontologia Africana 37: 41–52. http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/16366/2001.V37.DAMIANI.CRANIAL%20ANATOMY%20CHERNINIA.pdf.
- ↑ Peecook, Brandon R.; Steyer, J. Sébastien; Tabor, Neil J.; Smith, Roger M. H. (2017-11-29). "Updated geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Triassic Ntawere Formation of northeastern Zambia, with special emphasis on the archosauromorphs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (sup1): 8–38. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1410484. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ↑ Chernin, Sharon (1974). "Capitosaurid amphibians from the Upper Luangwa Valley, Zambia". Palaeontologia Africana 17: 29–55. http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/16048/1974.V17.CHERNIN.CAPITOSAURID%20AMPHIBIANS%20UPPER%20LUANGWA.pdf.
- ↑ Chernin, S.; Cosgriff, J.W. (1975). "Further consideration of the capitosaurids from the Upper Luangwa Valley, Zambia". Palaeontologia Africana 18: 143–148. http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/16281/1975.V18.CHERNIN_AND_COSGRIFF.CAPITOSAURIDS%20FROM%20UPPER%20LUANGWA.pdf?sequence=1.
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