Scutarx
Scutarx is an aetosaurine suchian known from the Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park of Arizona[1] and the Cooper Canyon Formation of Texas.[2] The type and only species, Scutarx deltatylus, was described in 2016 by William G. Parker. Known fossils include a mandible and a dentary from Arizona.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Suchia |
| Order: | †Aetosauria |
| Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
| Genus: | †Scutarx Parker, 2016 |
| Type species | |
| †Scutarx deltatylus Parker, 2016 | |
References
- Parker, William G. (2016). "Revised phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia); assessing the effects of incongruent morphological character sets". PeerJ. 4: e1583. doi:10.7717/peerj.1583. PMC 4727975. PMID 26819845.
- Parker, William G. (2016). "Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)"". PeerJ. 4: e2411. doi:10.7717/peerj.2411. PMC 5012282. PMID 27635359.
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