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Francis Rex Parrington FRS (20 Feb 1905 - 17 Apr 1981) was a British vertebrate palaeontologist and comparative anatomist who played an important role at the University of Cambridge's Zoology Department in the 1950s and 1960s.

He was born in Bromborough, Cheshire, son of brewer Frank Parrington.

The dinosaur Nyasasaurus parringtoni is named after him.

He received the Festschrift Studies In Vertebrate Evolution: Essays Presented To Dr. F.R. Parrington, F.R.S. in 1972.

His books include:
 * On the upper Triassic mammals (1971)
 * Studies in vertebrate evolution (co-author, 1972)
 * A Further account of the triassic mammals (1978)