Scleromochlus (from Greek: σκληρόςsklērós, 'hard' and Greek: μοχλόςmokhlós, 'lever') is an extinct genus of small pterosauromorph archosaurs from the Late Triassic Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland. The genus contains the type and only species Scleromochlus taylori, named by Arthur Smith Woodward in 1907.[1]
^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. 63 (1–4): 140–144. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1907.063.01-04.12. S2CID 131522263.
tail missing. Arthur Smith Woodward named and described Scleromochlus taylori in 1907. Scleromochlus taylori was about 181 millimetres (7.1 in) long, with...
iteration, in which were added Scleromochlus, found Lagerpetidae as the most basal pterosauromorphs, and Scleromochlus as the sister taxon of pterosaurs...
Lagerpetidae may potentially be examples, alongside the similar genus Scleromochlus. Dinosauromorpha, on the other hand, includes all avemetatarsalians...
1996 analysis, Bennett published a 2020 study on Scleromochlus which argued that both Scleromochlus and pterosaurs were non-archosaur archosauromorphs...
than to crocodilians). His analysis of the small Triassic archosaur Scleromochlus placed it within bird-line archosaurs but outside Ornithodira, meaning...
dinosauriform Saltopus and many pterosaurs. In the more closely related Scleromochlus and Dromomeron romeri, metacarpal III is the longest. The hands of Venetoraptor...
analysis without Scleromochlus, lagerpetids are found to be basal dinosauromorphs (closer to dinosaurs). However, the inclusion of Scleromochlus leads to the...
rhynchosaur, Hyperodapedon Scelidosaurus Schleitheimia Scipionyx Sciurumimus Scleromochlus – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian avemetatarsalian Scolosaurus...
similarly problematic Yonghesuchus, Dongusuchus, Spondylosoma, and Scleromochlus were also added to the dataset in order to test their relationships...
lithographic limestone. Woodward described the new genus and species Scleromochlus taylori. 1910 Eaton published his doctoral dissertation on the osteology...
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, discussed here Benton, M.J. (1999). "Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of dinosaurs and pterosaurs" (PDF). Philosophical...
species (Ornithosuchus longidens, Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis and Scleromochlus taylori). The taxa were coded for 74 characters. In 2010, Brian Blake...
Barrett, P. M. (2023). "The osteology of the Late Triassic reptile Scleromochlus taylori from μCT data". The Anatomical Record. 307 (4): 1113–1146. doi:10...
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