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Typothorax
Fossil range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification

Class

Sauropsida

Order

Aetosauria

Family

Stagonolepididae

Genus

Typothorax
Cope, 1875

Species

No information



Typothorax is a genus of extinct aetosaur that lived during the Late Triassic. Its remains have been found in North America.

Even though Typothorax was one of the first vertebrate fossils named from the Chinle Formation, most of the skull has not yet been described.

Description[]

History[]

References[]

  • King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus (Life of the Past) by David R. Schwimmer
  • The Complete Dinosaur by James O. Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman, and Robert F. Walters

External links[]

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