Supradapedon

Supradapedon is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from mid-late Triassic deposits of Tanganyika Territory, Tanzania. It is known from the holotype SAM-11704. The holotype and only specimen of "Supradapedon" was first assigned to a species of "Scaphonyx" (now considered to be a "nomen dubium"), Scaphonyx stockleyi. This species was reassigned to its own genus by Sankar Chatterjee in 1980 and the type species is Supradapedon stockleyi. One study, Langer "et al." (2000), concluded that "Supradapedon" is a synonym of "Hyperodapedon" and referred it to "Hyperodapedon sp." However, the provisional validity of this genus has been commonly accepted since.