Ingentidens

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Ingentidens
Temporal range:
Upper Permian
, Roadian
Type jaw, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this 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)

Ingentidens is an

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. ^ a b 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.