Mambachiton fiandohana Nesbitt et al. 2023 (archosaur)

Reptilia - Avemetatarsalia

Full reference: S. J. Nesbitt, E. Patellos, C. F. Kammerer, L. Ranivoharimanana, A. R. Wyss and J. J. Flynn. 2023. The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm-bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(2):327-353

Belongs to Mambachiton according to S. J. Nesbitt et al. 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UA 8-25-97-132, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is East of Sakaraha, which is in a Ladinian/Carnian terrestrial horizon in the Isalo II Formation of Madagascar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at East of Sakaraha

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