Acompsosaurus is an extinct genus of aetosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton found from the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation near Fort Wingate, New Mexico, which is now lost. The generic name means "sturdy lizard." It may be a junior synonym of Stagonolepis as its pelvis closely resembles that of S. robertsoni.[1]
| Acompsosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Order: | †Aetosauria |
| Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
| Genus: | †Acompsosaurus Mehl, 1916 |
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References
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- ^ Hunt, A. P.; and Lucas; S. G. (1989). "Late Triassic vertebrate localities in New Mexico". In Lucas, S. G.; Hunt, A. P. (eds.). Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest. Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History. pp. 72–101.
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