| Lutungutali Temporal range: ?Middle Triassic, ?
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| Holotype ilium with a scale bar | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia (?) |
| Family: | †Silesauridae |
| Clade: | †Sulcimentisauria |
| Genus: | †Lutungutali Peecook et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Lutungutali sitwensis Peecook et al., 2013
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Lutungutali (meaning "high hip" in the Bemba language) is an extinct genus of silesaurid dinosauriform from the Middle Triassic of Zambia. The single type species of the genus is Lutungutali sitwensis. Lutungutali was named in 2013 and described from a fossil specimen, holotype NHCC LB32, including hip bones and tail vertebrae. The specimen was collected in 2009 from the upper Ntawere Formation, which dates to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. Lutungutali is the first known silesaurid from Zambia and, along with the Tanzanian silesaurid Asilisaurus and dinosauriform Nyasasaurus, the oldest bird-line archosaur known from body fossils (i.e. parts of the skeleton).[1]
- ^ Peecook, B. R.; Sidor, C. A.; Nesbitt, S. J.; Smith, R. M. H.; Steyer, J. S.; Angielczyk, K. D. (2013). "A new silesaurid from the upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) demonstrates the rapid diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1127. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.755991.