Fayella Explained

Fayella is an extinct genus of dubious temnospondyl from the Early Permian (Guadalupian) of Oklahoma.^[1]

Taxonomy

The holotype of Fayella chickashaensis, FMNH UR 1004, comprises a brain case with part of basicranium, basipterygoid processes, and part of otic complex. It was found in the Chickasha Formation of Oklahoma.^[2] Olson (1972) referred a complete specimen (UCLA VP 3066) to Fayella based on cranial similarities.^[3] However, Gee et al. (2018) declared Fayella a nomen dubium, assigning it to Temnospondyli indeterminate and coining Nooxobeia for UCLA VP 3066, which is definitely a dissorophid.^[4]

See also

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians

Notes and References

1. Morphology and Biology of Reptiles (Linnean Society of London by Academic Press, 1976), page 11.
2. Olson, E. C., 1965, New Permian Vertebrates from the Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, c. 70, p. 1-70.
3. Olson, E. C., 1972, Fayella chickashaensis, the dissorophoid and the Permian Terrestrial Radiations: Journal of Paleontology, v. 46, n. 1, p. 104-114.
4. Bryan M. Gee; Diane Scott; Robert R. Reisz (2018). "Reappraisal of the Permian dissorophid Fayella chickashaensis". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55 (10): 1103–1114. doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0053.