''Parrisia'' is an extinct

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of legless batrachosauroidid

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from

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-age rocks in the

Marshalltown Formation The Marshalltown Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. Dinosau ...

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. The type and only species is ''Parrisia neocesariensis'', which was discovered at the Ellisdale Fossil Site in New Jersey.

References

Cretaceous salamanders Cretaceous amphibians of North America Late Cretaceous amphibians Fossil taxa described in 1998 {{cretaceous-animal-stub