Karutia is an extinct genus of parareptile known from the Early Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation of Brazil. The type species is Karutia fortunata.[1]

Karutia
Temporal range: Early Permian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Acleistorhinidae
Genus: Karutia
Cisneros et al., 2021
Type species
Karutia fortunata
Cisneros et al., 2021

References edit

  1. ^ Cisneros, Juan Carlos; Kammerer, Christian F.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Fröbisch, Jörg; Marsicano, Claudia; Smith, Roger M. H.; Richter, Martha (2020-12-01). "A new reptile from the lower Permian of Brazil (Karutia fortunata gen. et sp. nov.) and the interrelationships of Parareptilia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (23): 1939–1959. doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1863487. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 231741612.