| Archeopelta | |
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| A vertebra and adjacent osteoderms from CPEZ-239a | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Suchia |
| Family: | †Erpetosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Archeopelta Desojo et al., 2011 |
| Type species | |
| †Archeopelta arborensis Desojo et al., 2011
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Archeopelta is an extinct genus of carnivorous archosaur from the late Middle or early Late Triassic period (late Ladinian to early Carnian stage). It was a 2 m (6 ft) long predator which lived in what is now southern Brazil.[1] Its exact phylogenetic placement within Archosauriformes is uncertain; it was originally classified as a doswelliid, but subsequently it was argued to be an erpetosuchid archosaur.[2]
- ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Desojo, Julia B.; Ezcurra, Martín D. (2013-01-01). "Doswelliidae: a clade of unusual armoured archosauriforms from the Middle and Late Triassic". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 379 (1): 49–58. Bibcode:2013GSLSP.379...49S. doi:10.1144/SP379.13. ISSN 0305-8719. S2CID 129887410.
- ^ Martín D. Ezcurra; Lucas E. Fiorelli; Agustín G. Martinelli; Sebastián Rocher; M. Belén von Baczko; Miguel Ezpeleta; Jeremías R. A. Taborda; E. Martín Hechenleitner; M. Jimena Trotteyn; Julia B. Desojo (2017). "Deep faunistic turnovers preceded the rise of dinosaurs in southwestern Pangaea". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (10): 1477–1483. Bibcode:2017NatEE...1.1477E. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0305-5. hdl:11336/41466. PMID 29185518. S2CID 10007967.