Agnosphitys

Agnosphitys
Temporal range: Late Triassic, 208 Ma
Referred left maxilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia (?)
Family: Silesauridae (?)
Genus: Agnosphitys
Fraser et al., 2002
Species:
A. cromhallensis
Binomial name
Agnosphitys cromhallensis
Fraser et al., 2002

Agnosphitys (/ˌæɡnsˈftɪs/; "unknown begetter"; sometimes mistakenly called Agnostiphys or Agnosphytis) is a genus of dinosauriform that lived during the Late Triassic. It contains only one species, the type species A. cromhallensis. Its remains include an ilium, maxilla, astragalus and humerus, which date variously from the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic, or possibly as late as the Hettangian stage of the Early Jurassic.[1] The fissure fill at Avon, of which Agnosphitys was probably recovered from, was a sinkhole formed by the dissolution of Lower Carboniferous limestones.

  1. ^ Langer, 2004. Basal Saurischia. In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska. The Dinosauria Second Edition. University of California Press. 861 pp.