Aetosauroides

Aetosauroides Temporal range: Late Triassic ~231.4–225.9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull of A. scagliai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Order:	†Aetosauria
Genus:	†Aetosauroides Casamiquela, 1960
Type species
†Aetosauroides scagliai Casamiquela, 1960
Synonyms
A. subsulcatus Zacarias, 1982 A. inhamandensis Barberena et al., 1985 Polesinesuchus aurelioi? Roberto-da-Silva et al., 2014

Aetosauroides (meaning "Aetosaurus-like") is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic of South America. It is one of four aetosaurs known from South America, the others being Neoaetosauroides, Chilenosuchus and Aetobarbakinoides. Three species have been named: the type species A. scagliai, A. subsulcatus and A. inhamandensis. Fossils have been found in the Cancha de Bochas Member of the Ischigualasto Formation in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina and the Santa Maria Formation in the Paraná Basin in southeastern Brazil. The strata date to the late Carnian and early Norian stages, making Aetosauroides one of the oldest aetosaurs.^[1]