Karutia
| Karutia Temporal range: Early Permian, | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Acleistorhinidae |
| Genus: | †Karutia Cisneros et al., 2021 |
| Type species | |
| †Karutia fortunata Cisneros et al., 2021 | |
Karutia is an extinct genus of parareptile known from the Early Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation of Brazil. The type species is Karutia fortunata.
The species name refers to the fact that the research team was lucky in finding the fossil while having changing a flat tyre.