Stenaulorhynchus Temporal range: Anisian
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Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi on display at the Museum of Paleontology, Tübingen | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Order: | †Rhynchosauria |
Family: | †Rhynchosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Stenaulorhynchinae |
Genus: | †Stenaulorhynchus Haughton, 1932 |
Species | |
Stenaulorhynchus (possibly meaning "narrow tube beak") is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontid rhynchosaur known from the Middle Triassic (late Anisian stage) deposits of Tanganyika Territory, Tanzania. It was found in the Lifua Member of the Manda Formation in the Karoo Supergroup. It was named and first described by Sidney Henry Haughton in 1932. The type species is Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi, a beaked herbivore measuring 1–6 meters in length.[1][2]