| Stahleckeria Temporal range: Mid Triassic
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| Stahleckeria potens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Stahleckeriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Stahleckeriinae |
| Genus: | †Stahleckeria von Huene, 1935 |
| Species: | †S. potens
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stahleckeria potens von Huene, 1935
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Stahleckeria is an extinct genus of Middle Triassic (Ladinian) dicynodonts.[1] It lived about 240 million years ago in what is now Brazil and Namibia. As a member of the group Kannemeyeriiformes, it was similar to the genus Kannemeyeria. The genus is known from the type species Stahleckeria potens, which was first collected from the Ladinian-age Santa Maria Formation in the Paleorrota fossil site of Brazil. Stahleckeria was named in honor of Rudolf Stahlecker, who discovered the first specimens during a 1935 expedition led by paleontologist Friedrich von Huene to the Chiniquá fossil site.
- ^ Stahleckeria at Fossilworks.org