| Mambachiton Temporal range: Middle/Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sauropsida |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Avemetatarsalia |
| Genus: | †Mambachiton Nesbitt et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †M. fiandohana
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| †Mambachiton fiandohana Nesbitt et al., 2023
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Mambachiton (meaning "crocodile armour") is an extinct genus of basal avemetatarsalian from the Middle/Upper Triassic Makay Formation (Isalo II beds) of Madagascar. The genus contains a single species, M. fiandohana, known from a partial skeleton with articulated osteoderms.[1]
- ^ Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Patellos, Emily; Kammerer, Christian F.; Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa; Wyss, Andre´ R.; Flynn, John J. (2023-07-25). "The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm-bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 1–27. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad038. ISSN 0024-4082.