Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae

Full reference: A. B. Heckert, V. P. Schneider, N. C. Fraser and R. A. Webb. 2015. A new aetosaur (Archosauria, Suchia) from the Upper Triassic Pekin Formation, Deep River Basin, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its implications for early aetosaur evolution. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35:e881831

Belongs to Gorgetosuchus according to W. G. Parker 2016

See also Heckert et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NCSM 21723, an osteoderm (incomplete carapace consisting of all or parts of 10 paramedian and nine lateral osteoderms from the first 10 rows of the carapace and some associated osteoderm). Its type locality is NCPALEO1902 - brick quarry, which is in a Carnian fluvial conglomerate/sandstone in the Pekin Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at NCPALEO1902 - brick quarry

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.