Fayella is an extinct genus of dubious temnospondyl from the Early Permian (Guadalupian) of Oklahoma.Morphology and Biology of Reptiles (Linnean Society of London by Academic Press, 1976), page 11.
Taxonomy The holotype of Fayella chickashaensis, FMNH UR 1004, comprises a brain case with part of basicranium, basipterygoid processes, and part of otic complex. It was found in the Chickasha Formation of Oklahoma.Olson, E. C., 1965, New Permian Vertebrates from the Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, c. 70, p. 1-70. Olson (1972) referred a complete specimen (UCLA VP 3066) to Fayella based on cranial similarities.Olson, E. C., 1972, Fayella chickashaensis, the dissorophoid and the Permian Terrestrial Radiations: Journal of Paleontology, v. 46, n. 1, p. 104-114. However, Gee et al. (2018) declared Fayella a nomen dubium, assigning it to Temnospondyli indeterminate and coining Nooxobeia for UCLA VP 3066, which is definitely a dissorophid.Bryan M. Gee; Diane Scott; Robert R. Reisz (2018). "Reappraisal of the Permian dissorophid Fayella chickashaensis". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55 (10): 1103–1114. doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0053.
See also
Prehistoric amphibian List of prehistoric amphibians
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