Scutarx
Scutarx Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | †Aetosauriformes |
Order: | †Aetosauria |
Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
Genus: | †Scutarx Parker, 2016 |
Type species | |
†Scutarx deltatylus Parker, 2016
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Scutarx is an desmatosuchine aetosaur known from the Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park of Arizona and the Cooper Canyon Formation of Texas. The type and only species, Scutarx deltatylus, was described in 2016 by William G. Parker.[1] Known fossils include skull, skeletal, and osteoderm material from Arizona, and osteoderms from Texas.[2]
References[]
- ^ Parker, William G. (2016). "Revised phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia); assessing the effects of incongruent morphological character sets". PeerJ. 4: e1583. doi:10.7717/peerj.1583. PMC 4727975. PMID 26819845.
- ^ Parker, William G. (2016). "Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)"". PeerJ. 4: e2411. doi:10.7717/peerj.2411. PMC 5012282. PMID 27635359.
Categories:
- Fossil taxa described in 2016
- Aetosaurs of North America
- Late Triassic pseudosuchians
- Paleontology in Arizona
- Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera