Tanytrachelos

Tanytrachelos Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Protorosauria
Family:	†Tanystropheidae
Genus:	†Tanytrachelos Olsen, 1979
Type species
†Tanytrachelos ahynis Olsen, 1979

Tanytrachelos is an extinct genus of tanystropheid archosauromorph reptile from the Late Triassic of the eastern United States. It contains a single species, Tanytrachelos ahynis, which is known from several hundred fossil specimens preserved in the Solite Quarry in Cascade, Virginia. Fossils of Tanytrachelos are found in a series of lakebed sediments that were deposited over the course of about 350 thousand years.^[1] Some fossils are very well-preserved and include the remains of soft tissues.^[2]

References

1. Casey, M. (2005). "Multivariate morphometrics and allometry of the Triassic reptile Tanytrachelos ahynis". Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 37 (7): 88.
2. Casey, M. M.; Fraser, N. C.; Kowalewski, M. (2007). "Quantitative Taphonomy of a Triassic Reptile Tanytrachelos ahynis from the Cow Branch Formation, Dan River Basin, Solite Quarry, Virginia". PALAIOS. 22 (6): 598. doi:10.2110/palo.2006.p06-010r.