Parahupehsuchus
Name:
Parahupehsuchus
(Near Hupehsuchus).
Phonetic: Pah-rah-hu-pe-su-kus.
Named By: X. -H. Chen, R. Motani, L.
Cheng, D. Jiang & O. Rieppel - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Diapsida,
Ichthyosauromorpha, Hupehsuchia, Hupehsuchidae.
Species: P. longus (type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains.
Known locations: China, Hubei Province -
Jialingjiang Formation.
Time period: Olenekian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeletal
remains.
Parahupehsuchus is a genus of hupehsuchian marine reptile that lived in waters that receded over what is now China. Parahupehsuchus would have been a small aquatic predator that is named for its similarity to the type genus of the Hupehsuchidae, Hupehsuchus.
Further reading
- A carapace-like bony ‘body tube’ in an Early Triassic marine
reptile and the onset of marine tetrapod predation. - PLoS ONE
9(4):e94396. - X. -H. Chen, R. Motani, L. Cheng,
D. Jiang & O. Rieppel - 2014.
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