Taytalura

Taytalura; Temporal range: Late Triassic (late Carnian) 231.4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Lepidosauromorpha
Genus:	†Taytalura; Martinez et al., 2021
Type species
	†Taytalura alcoberi; Martinez et al., 2021

Taytalura is an extinct genus of lepidosauromorph reptile from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It contains a single species, Taytalura alcoberi, which is based on a well-preserved skull from the late Carnian Ischigualasto Formation. Although Taytalura did not belong to any group of modern lepidosaurs, micro-CT scanning reveals features of the skull previously only seen in sphenodontians (tuatara and kin). This suggests that the ancestral condition of the skull in lepidosaurs was more similar to sphenodontians than to squamates (lizards and kin).^[1]

References[]

^ Martínez, Ricardo N.; Simões, Tiago R.; Sobral, Gabriela; Apesteguía, Sebastián (2021-08-25). "A Triassic stem lepidosaur illuminates the origin of lizard-like reptiles". Nature. 597 (7875): 235–238. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03834-3. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 34433961. S2CID 237307957.

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[1] Martínez, Ricardo N.; Simões, Tiago R.; Sobral, Gabriela; Apesteguía, Sebastián (2021-08-25). "A Triassic stem lepidosaur illuminates the origin of lizard-like reptiles". Nature. 597 (7875): 235–238. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03834-3. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 34433961. S2CID 237307957.

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