Georgenthalia

Georgenthalia
Temporal range:
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Euskelia
Superfamily: Dissorophoidea
Clade: Amphibamiformes
Genus: Georgenthalia
Anderson et al., 2008
Species
  • G. clavinasica Anderson et al., 2008 (type)

Georgenthalia is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian. It is an amphibamid which lived in what is now the Thuringian Forest of central Germany. It is known from the holotype MNG 11135, a small, complete skull. It was found in the Bromacker locality of the Tambach Formation. It was first named by Jason S. Anderson, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, Thomas Martens and David S. Berman in 2008 and the type species is Georgenthalia clavinasica.

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