Nooxobeia

Nooxobeia
Temporal range: Early Permian, 271 Ma
Life restoration of Nooxobeia gracilis (right) based on specimen UCLA VP 3066.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Dissorophidae
Genus: Nooxobeia
Gee, Scott & Reisz, 2018
Type species
Nooxobeia gracilis
Gee, Scott & Reisz, 2018

Nooxobeia is an extinct genus of dissorophid temnospondyl from the Early Permian (Guadalupian) of Oklahoma. The generic name is derived from the Arapaho (a language spoken in the type locality of the holotype) word nooxobe, which means frog.[1]

  1. ^ Gee, Bryan M.; Scott, Diane; Reisz, Robert R. (2018). "Reappraisal of the Permian dissorophid Fayella chickashaensis". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55 (10): 1103–1114. doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0053.