Name:
Abyssomedon.
Phonetic: Ah-biss-o-me-don.
Named By: M. MacDougall & R. R.
Reisz - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Parareptilia,
Procolophonomorpha, Nyctiphruretidae.
Species: A. williamsi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Oklahoma - Garber
Formation.
Time period: Kungurian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial remains.
Abyssomedon is the first genus of nyctiphruretid procolophonomorph to be identified as living in North America.
Further reading
- The first record of a nyctiphruretid parareptile from the Early
Permian of North America, with a discussion of parareptilian temporal
fenestration. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
172:616-630. - M. MacDougall & R. R. Reisz -
2014.