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Scleromochlus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Scleromochlus was named by Woodward (1907). It is the type genus of Scleromochloidea.

It was assigned to Dinosauria by Woodward (1907); to Ornithosuchidae by Watson (1917); to Procompsognathidae by Romer (1966); to Theropoda by Swinton (1970); to Ornithodira by Sereno (1991), Novas (1996); to Scleromochlidae by Huene (1922), Huene (1942), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1966), Charig (1967), Romer (1972), Carroll (1988), Benton (1999); to Pterosauria by Headden and Campos (2014); and to Lagerpetidae by Müller et al. (2023).

Species

S. taylori

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1907	Scleromochlus Woodward p. 143
1917	Scleromochlus Watson p. 180
1922	Scleromochlus Huene p. 22
1942	Scleromochlus Huene p. 244
1956	Scleromochlus Romer p. 595
1966	Scleromochlus Kuhn p. 75
1966	Scleromochlus Romer p. 369
1967	Scleromochlus Charig p. 709
1970	Scleromochlus Swinton p. 120
1972	Scleromochlus Romer p. 17
1988	Scleromochlus Carroll
1991	Scleromochlus Sereno p. 34
1996	Scleromochlus Novas p. 737 fig. 10
1999	Scleromochlus Benton
2014	Scleromochlus Headden and Campos
2023	Scleromochlus Müller et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Eugnathostomata
—	Teleostomi	(Bonaparte 1836)
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Pterosauromorpha	Padian 1997
—	Lagerpetidae	()
genus	Scleromochlus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Scleromochlus Woodward 1907

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†Scleromochlus taylori Woodward 1907

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Life habit:

ground dwellingg

Comments:

bipedal runnerg

Created:

2009-01-04 11:42:34

Modified:

2009-01-04 13:42:34

Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, subp = subphylum, p = phylum

References: Padian 1985, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Carnian to the top of the Norian or 237.00000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Carnian - Norian	237.0 - 205.7	United Kingdom (Scotland)	S. taylori (57948)