Megachirella
| Megachirella Temporal range: Middle Triassic, | |
|---|---|
| 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.