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| Type specimen SMNS 5721 on display | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Order: | †Aetosauria |
| Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
| Tribe: | †Paratypothoracini |
| Genus: | †Paratypothorax Long and Ballew, 1985 |
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| †Paratypothorax andressi Long and Ballew, 1985
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Paratypothorax is an extinct genus of aetosaur, known from a single species, Paratypothorax andressorum. It was a broadly distributed member of the group found in Germany, North America, and possibly parts of Gondwana. The best specimens come from Germany, though for more than a century they were mistakenly considered phytosaur armor. Paratypothorax was a large and wide-bodied typothoracine aetosaur, as well as the namesake of the tribe Paratypothoracisini.[1]
- ^ Schoch, Rainer R.; Desojo, Julia Brenda (2016). "Cranial anatomy of the aetosaur Paratypothorax andressorum Long & Ballew, 1985, from the Upper Triassic of Germany and its bearing on aetosaur phylogeny". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (1). doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0542. hdl:11336/46965. ISSN 0077-7749.