Scleromochlus

Taxobox
name = "Scleromochlus"
fossil_range = Late Triassic

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Life restoration of "Scleromochlus taylori"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
infraclassis = Archosauromorpha
unranked_ordo = Ornithodira
familia = Scleromochlidae
familia_authority = Huene, 1914
genus = "Scleromochlus"
genus_authority= Woodward, 1907
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
* "S. taylori" Woodward, 1907 (type)

"Scleromochlus" is an extinct genus of small ornithodiran from the Late Triassic period. A lightly-built cursorial animal, its phylogenetic position within Ornithodira has been debated; as different analyses have found it to be either the basal-most ornithodiran or the sister-taxon to Pterosauria.

"Scleromochlus" is a monotypic genus (single species), which is the type species "S. taylori".

References

* Benton, M.J. (1999). "Scleromochlus taylori" and the origin of the pterosaurs. "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Series B" 354: 1423-1446.

* Woodward, A.S. (1907). On a new dinosaurian reptile ("Scleromochlus taylori", gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. "Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1907" 63: 140-144.