Parrishia is an extinct genus of sphenosuchian crocodylomorph known from the Late Triassic Chinle, Dockum, and Santa Rosa Formations in Arizona and New Mexico.
The genus was named in 1995 from fossils found from the Placerias quarry of the Chinle Group in Apache County, Arizona.
[1] In their description of a new crocodylomorph skeleton from the famous Whitaker quarry in Ghost Ranch, Clark et al. (2000) treated Parrishia as a nomen dubium because they considered the holotype and referred specimens undiagnostic.
[2] More complete postcranial skeletons such as PEFO 26681 have been found that clearly show that the cervical centra of Parrishia possess articular faces that are dorsoventrally offset as in Hesperosuchus.
[5] In an SVP 2018 conference abstract, William Parker and colleagues reported the discovery of new specimens indicating that Parrishia represents a phytosaur and not a crocodylomorph.