Megachirella

Megachirella Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 240 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Megachirella wachtleri, Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bolzano, Italy
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Lepidosauria
Genus:	†Megachirella Renesto and Posenato, 2003
Type species
†Megachirella wachtleri Renesto and Posenato, 2003

Megachirella is an extinct genus of lepidosaur, possibly a stem-squamate that lived about 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic and contains only one known species, Megachirella wachtleri. It is known from a partial skeleton discovered in the Dolomites of Northern Italy and was described in 2003.