| Parahenodus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Placodontia |
| Family: | †Henodontidae |
| Genus: | †Parahenodus De Miguel Chaves, Ortega & Pérez‐García,2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Parahenodus atancensis De Miguel Chaves, Ortega & Pérez‐García, 2018 | |
Parahenodus (meaning "near Henodus", with Hendous meaning "single tooth") is an extinct genus ofhenodontidplacodont only known from a skull, discovered between 2008 and 2015 and described in 2018. It lived during theLate Triassic (Carnian–Norian). The skull, named and described asParahenodus atancensis, was discovered inKeuperFacies of the Castilian Branche of the Iberian Range in the reservoir of El Atance (Sigüenza,Spain). It was thesister taxon toHenodus.[1]
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