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 | |
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.