Parringtonia gracilis Huene 1939 (archosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Erpetosuchidae

Full reference: F. v. Huene. 1939. Ein kleiner Pseudosuchier und ein Saurischier aus den ostafrikanischen Mandaschichten [A small pseudosuchian and a saurischian from the East African Manda Beds]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilage-Band, Abteilung B 81(1):61-69

Belongs to Parringtonia according to S. J. Nesbitt and R. J. Butler 2012

See also Huene 1939

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMUK R8646, a partial skeleton (relatively complete right maxilla, five nearly complete dorsal vertebrae, two dorsal centra, two partial dorsal neural arches, three caudal vertebrae, five oste). Its type locality is Parrington, Upper Bone Bed, Ruhuhu (Loc. B 15/1), which is in an Anisian fluvial-deltaic sandstone/siltstone in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Parrington, Upper Bone Bed, Ruhuhu (Loc. B 15/1)

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