Paratypothorax

Paratypothorax; Temporal range: Late Carnian? - Rhaetian, 216–201.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Type specimen SMNS 5721 on display
Scientific 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]

^ 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.

[:0-1] 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.

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