Arachana

Name: Arachana.
Phonetic: A-rah-cah-nah.
Named By: Graciela Piņeiro,‭ ‬Alejandro Ramos and Claudia Marsicano‭ ‬-‭ ‬2012.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Amphibia,‭ ‬Temnospondyli,‭ ‬Stereospondylomorpha,‭ ‬Stereospondyli.
Species: A.‭ ‬nigra‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Uruguay‭ ‬-‭ ‬Buena Vista Formation.
Time period: Late Permian/Early Triassic.
Fossil representation: Almost perfectly preserved skull‭ (‬FC-DPV‭ ‬1369‭)‬.

       Arachana was a key find for the study of temnospondyls because the skull possesses a mix of features which show a transition between rhinesuchids and lydekkerinids.‭ ‬Aside from helping to establish a lineage between these groups,‭ ‬but also illustrates that temnospondyls were trying to adapt to changing environmental conditions from the effects of the‭ ‬Permian extinction.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A rhinesuchid-like temnospondyl from the Permo-Triassic of Uruguay,‭ ‬Graciela Piņeiro,‭ ‬Alejandro Ramos and Claudia Marsicano‭ ‬-‭ ‬2012.



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