Paratypothorax

Paratypothorax
Temporal range: Late Carnian? - Rhaetian, 216–201.6 Ma
Type specimen SMNS 5721 on display
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Order: Aetosauria
Family: Stagonolepididae
Tribe: Paratypothoracini
Genus: Paratypothorax
Long and Ballew, 1985
Type species
Paratypothorax andressi
Long and Ballew, 1985
Species
  • P. andressorum Long and Ballew, 1985 emend. Heckert and Lucas, 2000 (type)

Paratypothorax is an extinct genus of aetosaur, known from a single species, Paratypothorax andressorum. It was a broadly distributed member of the group found in Germany, North America, and possibly parts of Gondwana. The best specimens come from Germany, though for more than a century they were mistakenly considered phytosaur armor. Paratypothorax was a large and wide-bodied typothoracine aetosaur, as well as the namesake of the tribe Paratypothoracisini.[1]

  1. ^ Schoch, Rainer R.; Desojo, Julia Brenda (2016). "Cranial anatomy of the aetosaur Paratypothorax andressorum Long & Ballew, 1985, from the Upper Triassic of Germany and its bearing on aetosaur phylogeny". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (1). doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0542. hdl:11336/46965. ISSN 0077-7749.