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FEDEXIA
(fed-ex-ee-ah)
meaning: "After the Federal Express Company"
Fedexia
Named By: Berman et al in 2010
Time Period: Late Pennsylvanian, 300 Ma
Location: USA, Pennsylvania, Casselman Formation, Pittsburgh
Size: Total size is uncertain due to insufficient remains, but estimates place it at around 60 centimetres long. Skull length is 11.5 centimetres
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Single but well preserved skull
Classification: | Chordata | Tetrapoda | Amphibia | Temnospondyli | Euskelia | Dissorophoidea | Trematopidae |
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Fedexia is an extinct genus of carnivorous temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It lived 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. It is estimated to have been 2 feet (0.61 m) long, and likely resembled a salamander. Fedexia is known from a single skull found in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was first found.

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