Reptilia - Squamata - Paramacellodidae

The species is named for Pawhuska (ca. 1763–1809), a chief of the Osage people native to the region, who reportedly got his name (“white hair”) from a powdered wig he acquired during St. Clair’s Defeat (1791).

Full reference: C. A. Suarez, J. Frederickson, R. L. Cifelli, J. G. Pittman, R. Nydam, R. K. Hunt-Foster, and K. Morgan. 2021. A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA. PeerJ 9(e12242):1-60

Belongs to Sciroseps according to C. A. Suarez et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UA-2016-13-294, a mandible (partial left mandible). Its type locality is Weyerhaeuser Briar Plant Quarry [Holly Creek], which is in an Albian coastal mudstone/sandstone in the Holly Creek Formation of Arkansas.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Weyerhaeuser Briar Plant Quarry [Holly Creek]

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.