†Cherninia denwai Mukherjee and Sengupta 1998 (tetrapod)
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Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Alternative combination: Parotosuchus denwai
Full reference: R. N. Mukherjee and D. P. Sengupta. 1998. New capitosaurid amphibians from the Triassic Denwa Formation of the Satpura Gondwana Basin, central India. Ameghiniana 22:317-327
Belongs to Cherninia according to R. J. Damiani 2001
See also Mukherjee and Sengupta 1998 and Schoch and Milner 2000
Sister taxon: Cherninia megarhina
Type specimen: ISI A 54, a skull. Its type locality is 1.5 km E of Purtala, which is in an Anisian terrestrial horizon in the Denwa Formation of India.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at 1.5 km E of Purtala
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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