Dolerosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Dolerosaurus | display_parents = 2 | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]], {{fossil_range|231|228}} | authority = [[Richard J. Butler|Butler]], [[2013 in paleontology|2013]] | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Francosuchus trauthi''''' | type_species_authority = Huene, 1939 }}

'''''Dolerosaurus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[diapsid]] known from the early [[Late Triassic]] (late [[Carnian]] stage) upper [[Lunz Formation]] of [[Austria]]. ''Dolerosaurus'' was first named by [[Richard J. Butler]] in [[2013 in paleontology|2013]] and the [[type species]] is ''[[Francosuchus]] trauthi''.<ref name=Dolerosaurus>{{Cite journal | last1 = Butler | first1 = R. J. | title = '''Francosuchus trauthi'' is not ''Paleorhinus'': Implications for Late Triassic vertebrate biostratigraphy | doi = 10.1080/02724634.2013.740542 | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 33 | issue = 4 | pages = 858–864 | year = 2013 | s2cid = 86386615 }}</ref>

==Discovery and naming== In 1939 Friedrich von Huene named a new species of the [[phytosaur]] ''[[Francosuchus]]'', ''F. trauthi'', based upon a small fragment of rostrum.<ref>Ein primitiver Phytosaurier in der jüngeren nordost-alpinen Trias. - Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B 1939:139-144. - Friedrich von Huene - 1939.</ref> It was at some point later referred to ''[[Paleorhinus]]'', but in 2013, it was renamed to the new genus ''Dolerosaurus''.<ref name=Dolerosaurus /> Unfortunately very little can be said about ''Dolerosaurus'' given that its holotype fossil is so small (c.{{convert|5|cm|in}} long) and the known remains are so scant. ''Dolerosaurus'' was referred to [[Phytosauria]] in 1939, but after subsequent analyses in 2013, it was reclassified as a basal [[diapsid]].

== References == {{Reflist}} {{Sauropsida|E.}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q16752372}}

[[Category:Carnian genera]] [[Category:Late Triassic reptiles of Europe]] [[Category:Triassic Austria]] [[Category:Fossils of Austria]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2013]]