Scleromochlus

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Scleromochlus Fossil range: Late Triassic
Life restoration of Scleromochlus taylori
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Infraclass: Archosauromorpha (unranked) Ornithodira Family: Scleromochlidae Huene, 1914 Genus: Scleromochlus Woodward, 1907
Species
S. taylori Woodward, 1907 (type)

Scleromochlus is an extinct genus of small ornithodiran from the Late Triassic period. A lightly-built cursorial animal, its phylogenetic position within Ornithodira has been debated; as different analyses have found it to be either the basal-most ornithodiran or the sister-taxon to Pterosauria.

Scleromochlus is a monotypic genus (single species), which is the type species S. taylori.

[edit] References

• Benton, M.J. (1999). Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of the pterosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Series B 354: 1423-1446.

• Woodward, A.S. (1907). On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1907 63: 140-144.

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