Scutarx

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Scutarx
Temporal range: Late Triassic, Carnian–Norian
Scutarx-deltatylus 1.jpg
Life restoration and size diagram
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Aetosauriformes
Order: Aetosauria
Family: Stagonolepididae
Genus: Scutarx
Parker, 2016
Type species
Scutarx deltatylus
Parker, 2016

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[]

  1. ^ 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. open access
  2. ^ 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.
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