Mambawakale

Mambawakale
Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Anisian?)
Holotype skull of Mambawakale
Hypothetical size comparison and skeletal reconstruction of the known remains (in white)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Paracrocodylomorpha
Genus: †Mambawakale
Butler et al., 2022
Species:
†M. ruhuhu
Binomial name
†Mambawakale ruhuhu
Butler et al., 2022

Mambawakale is a genus of large sized basal paracrocodylomorph, possibly a poposauroid, from the Manda Beds of Tanzania. It was informally named Pallisteria before being officially published under its current name almost 60 years after its discovery. It contains a single species, Mambawakale ruhuhu.

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