{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]], <br />{{fossilrange|221.5|205.6}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Kocurypelta silvestris | parent_authority = Czepiński ''et al.'', [[2021 in archosaur paleontology|2021]] | authority = Czepiński ''et al.'', 2021 }}
'''''Kocurypelta''''' is an extinct genus of [[Paratypothoracini|paratypothoracin]] [[aetosaur]] from the [[Late Triassic]] ([[Norian]])-aged [[Lissauer Breccia]] of southern [[Poland]]. Only the type species is known, which is '''''K. silvestris''''', described by Czepiński ''et al.'' in 2021.<ref name=Czep2021>{{Cite journal|last1=Czepiński |first1=Ł. |last2=Dróżdż |first2=D. |last3=Szczygielski |first3=T. |last4=Tałanda |first4=M. |last5=Pawlak |first5=W. |last6=Lewczuk |first6=A. |last7=Rytel |first7=A. |last8=Sulej |first8=T. |title=An Upper Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrate Assemblage from the Forgotten Kocury Locality (Poland) with a New Aetosaur Taxon |year=2021 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=41 |issue=1 |article-number=e1898977 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2021.1898977 |bibcode=2021JVPal..41E8977C |s2cid=233522981 |url=https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/24086 }}</ref>
==Discovery and naming== The [[holotype]] (ZPAL V.66/4), which consists of part of the [[maxilla]], and referred material (three [[osteoderm|dorsal paramedial plates]] and a ventral plate fragment), was found in a layer of the [[Lissauer Breccia]], of which the location was believed to have been lost after the formation was studied by [[Friedrich von Huene]] while describing ''[[Velocipes]]'' in 1932,<ref>Huene, F. von. (1932). ''Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte''. ''Monogr. Geol. Pal''. 4 (1) pts. 1 and 2, viii + 361 pp.</ref> near [[Kocury, Opole Voivodeship|Kocury]], during excavations that began in 2012, that re-discovered and re-explored the formation. The remains were described as the new species ''Kocurypelta silvestris'' in 2021.<ref name=Czep2021 />
==Description== According to Czepiński ''et al.'' (2021), ''Kocurypelta'' is characterized by autapomorphies of the maxilla: an elongated edentulous posterior portion longer than 80% of the posterior maxillary process, a short medial shelf restricted to the posterior portion of the bone, an anteriorly unroofed maxillary accessory cavity, and the lack of a distinct groove for choanal recess on the anteromedial surface of the bone.<ref name=Czep2021 />
==Paleoecology== ''Kocurypelta'' would have been contemporaneous with the [[theropod]] [[dinosaur]] ''[[Velocipes]]'', an indeterminate species of [[lungfish]] (cf. ''[[Metaceratodus]]'' sp.) and an indeterminate species of stem-[[turtle]] from the [[Proterochersidae]] family (''[[Proterochersis]]'' cf. ''porebensis'').<ref name=Czep2021 />
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