| Kryphioparma Temporal range: Late Triassic (Adamanian),
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Order: | †Aetosauria |
| Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
| Subfamily: | †Typothoracinae |
| Genus: | †Kryphioparma Reyes, Parker & Heckert, 2023 |
| Species: | †K. caerula
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kryphioparma caerula Reyes, Parker & Heckert, 2023
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Kryphioparma is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation, Arizona. It is the oldest known member of the subfamily Typothoracinae, and is currently only known from five isolated and incomplete dorsal osteoderms. Regardless, said osteoderms show a clear mix of features that do not match any other known aetosaur and were thus used as the basis for a new genus and species in 2023. The genus is monotypic, only including a single species, Kryphioparma caerula.[1]
- ^ Reyes, W. A.; Parker, W. G.; Heckert, A. B. (2023). "A new aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the upper Blue Mesa Member (Adamanian: Early–Mid Norian) of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, northern Arizona, USA, and a review of the paratypothoracin Tecovasuchus across the southwestern USA". PaleoBios. 40 (9). doi:10.5070/P940961559.