Stenoscelida

Stenoscelida
Temporal range: Late Triassic (late Carnian/early Norian)
Stenoscelida aurantiacus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Clade: Proterochampsia
Family: Proterochampsidae
Genus: Stenoscelida
Müller, Garcia & Fonseca, 2022
Species:
S. aurantiacus
Binomial name
Stenoscelida aurantiacus
Müller, Garcia & Fonseca, 2022

Stenoscelida (meaning "narrow hind leg") is a genus of proterochampsid archosauriforms from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Supersequence (Paraná Basin) of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The genus contains a single species, S. aurantiacus, known from a right hind limb.[1]

  1. ^ Müller, R. T.; Garcia, M. S.; Fonseca, A. O. (2022). "A new proterochampsid (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsia) from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the emergence of archosaurian hind limb trait". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20 (1). 2128913. doi:10.1080/14772019.2022.2128913.