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'{{italictitle}}{{speciesbox | name = ''Scleromochlus'' | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]], {{fossil_range|Carnian}} | image = Scleromochlus_BW.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Life restoration of ''Scleromochlus taylori'' | genus = Scleromochlus | display_parents = 4 | grandparent_authority = [[Friedrich von Huene|Huene]], 1914 | parent_authority = [[Arthur Smith Woodward|Woodward]], [[1907 in paleontology|1907]] | authority = [[Arthur Smith Woodward|Woodward]], 1907 | species = taylori }} '''''Scleromochlus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of small [[avemetatarsalia]]n from the Late [[Triassic]] period. A lightly built [[cursorial]] animal, its [[phylogeny|phylogenetic]] position has been debated; as different analyses have found it to be either the [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]]-most [[ornithodira]]n, the sister-taxon to [[Pterosauria]], or a basal member of Avemetatarsalia that lies outside of Ornithodira. ''Scleromochlus'' is a monotypic genus (single species), which is the [[type species]] ''S. taylori''. ''Scleromochlus taylori'' was about 181&nbsp;mm (about 7.1&nbsp;inches) long, with long hind legs; it may have been capable of four-legged and two-legged locomotion. Its fossils have been found in the [[Carnian]] [[Lossiemouth Sandstone]] of [[Scotland]]. The [[holotype]] is BMNH R3556, a partial skeleton preserved as an impression in [[sandstone]]; part of the skull and tail are missing.<ref>[http://www.triunecommunications.com/fossilsmith/sclero.html Basic information from Fossilsmith]</ref> [[File:Scleromochlus.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Two ''Scleromochlus'']] == References == <references/> * {{cite journal | last1=Benton | first1=M. J. | authorlink=Michael J. Benton | title=Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of dinosaurs and pterosaurs| pages= 1423–1446 | year=1999 | volume=354 |pmc=1692658 | journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | doi = 10.1098/rstb.1999.0489 | jstor=57034 | issue=1388 | pmid=}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Woodward | first1 = A. S. | authorlink = Arthur Smith Woodward | title = On a New Dinosaurian Reptile (Scleromochlus Taylori, gen. Et sp. Nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin | journal = Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society | volume = 63 | pages= 140–144 | year = 1907 | doi = 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1907.063.01-04.12 }} {{Archosauromorpha}} {{portal|Paleontology}} [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1907]] [[Category:Ornithodirans]] [[Category:Triassic reptiles]] {{triassic-reptile-stub}} {{paleo-archosaur-stub}} {{Link FA|pl}}'