Otischalkia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| taxon = Otischalkia

| authority = Hunt & Lucas, 1991

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• †O. elderae Hunt & Lucas, 1991 (type)

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Otischalkia is an extinct genus of archosauromoph from late Triassic (late Carnian stage) deposits of Howard County, Texas, US It is known from the holotype TMM 31025-263, left humerus and from the referred specimens TMM 31025-262, TMM 31025-266, TMM 31025-264, TMM 31185-92 and TMM 31185-93. It was found in the Lower Dockum Group near the abandoned settlement of Otis Chalk. It was first named by Adrian P. Hunt and Spencer G. Lucas in 1991 and the type species is Otischalkia elderae.{{cite journal |author1=Adrian P. Hunt |author2=Spencer G. Lucas |year=1991 |title=A new Rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic of West Texas, and the Biochronology of Late Triassic Rhyncosaurs |journal=Palaeontology |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=927–938 }}

Originally described as a rhynchosaur, several recent studies found O. elderae to represent a nomen dubium.{{Cite journal | doi=10.1111/pala.12113|title = A new Hyperodapedon(Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India: Implications for rhynchosaur phylogeny| journal=Palaeontology| volume=57| issue=6| pages=1241–1276|year = 2014|last1 = Mukherjee|first1 = Debarati| last2=Ray| first2=Sanghamitra| bibcode=2014Palgy..57.1241M | s2cid=86195905 | doi-access=free}}{{cite journal |last=Ezcurra |first=Martín D. |author2=Montefeltro, Felipe |author3=Butler, Richard J. |year=2016 |title=The Early Evolution of Rhynchosaurs |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=3 |pages=article 142 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2015.00142|doi-access=free |hdl=11336/44040 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal |author1=Cesar Leandro Schultz |author2=Max Cardoso Langer |author3=Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro |year=2016 |title=A new rhynchosaur from south Brazil (Santa Maria Formation) and rhynchosaur diversity patterns across the Middle-Late Triassic boundary |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=90 |issue= 3|pages= 593–609|doi=10.1007/s12542-016-0307-7 |bibcode=2016PalZ...90..593S |hdl=11449/161986 |s2cid=130644209 |hdl-access=free }} Nesbitt et al. (2021) came to the conclusion that the holotype of Otischalkia actually belongs to an azendohsaurid, specifically a malerisaurine.{{Cite journal |last1=Nesbitt |first1=Sterling J. |last2=Stocker |first2=Michelle R. |last3=Ezcurra |first3=Martín D. |last4=Fraser |first4=Nicholas C. |last5=Heckert |first5=Andrew B. |last6=Parker |first6=William G. |last7=Mueller |first7=Bill |last8=Sengupta |first8=Saradee |last9=Bandyopadhyay |first9=Saswati |last10=Pritchard |first10=Adam C. |last11=Marsh |first11=Adam D. |year=2021 |editor-last=Field |editor-first=Daniel |title=Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1413 |s2cid=245049571 |issn=2056-2799|doi-access=free }}