Gamatavus
| Gamatavus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria (?) |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia (?) |
| Family: | †Silesauridae |
| Genus: | †Gamatavus Pretto et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †G. antiquus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gamatavus antiquus Pretto et al., 2022
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| Gamatavus type locality in Dilermando de Aguiar Municipality, Brazil | |
Gamatavus (meaning "Picada do Gama great-grandfather") is a genus of silesaurid dinosauriform from the Middle Triassic Santa Maria Formation of Dilermando de Aguiar Municipality, Brazil. The genus contains a single species, G. antiquus, known from a partial ilium. Gamatavus represents one of the oldest silesaurids known from South America, alongside the roughly coeval Gondwanax.