Sophineta is an extinct genus of basal lepidosauromorph reptile known from the Early Triassic (late Olenekian age) of Małopolska Province, southern Poland. It contains a single species, Sophineta cracoviensis. Discovery Sophineta was first described and named by Susan E. Evans and Magdalena Borsuk−Białynicka in 2009, and the type species is Sophineta cracoviensis. It is known from holotype ZPAL RV/175, a nearly complete right maxilla. Many isolated or associated skull and postcranial fragments are referred to the species, representing frontals, parietals, prefrontal, postfrontals, postorbitals, jugals, squamosals, pterygoids, quadrates, maxillae, premaxilla, dentaries, vertebrae and ilia. Sophineta fossils were discovered in situ and collected in 1982 by a team (Paszkowski and Wieczorek) from the Institute of Geological Sciences of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. They were collected from the Czatkowice 1 locality, a single exposure near Kraków from which a diverse fauna of small vertebrates is known. It represents Triassic karst deposits which developed in Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian to Mid Visean) limestone which is now mined at the Czatkowice quarry. The locality dates to the earliest Late Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic period, about 247.3 million years ago. Sophineta is the smaller of the two lepidosauromorph reptiles known from the Czatkowice quarry, alongside the larger kuehneosaurid Pamelina. Czatkowice 1 material was transferred to and stored at the Museum of the Earth and Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Preliminary chemical preparation in acetic acid was initially performed, before effective preparation started in the 1990s until 2007. Etymology The generic name honors Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska of the Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, and it is derived from Greek sophia, meaning "wisdom" which is the classical root of the name Zofia. The specific name is derived from Cracovia, the Latin name for Kraków, the closest major Polish city to the Czatkowice 1 locality (the type locality of Sophineta). It is also honors researchers at the University of Kraków for their work at the locality. Description Sophineta differs from all kuehneosaurs and Marmoretta in having short vertebrae bearing notochord pits while lacking transverse processes. It also has pleurodont teeth, rather than subthecodont teeth like in all kuehneosaurs. Other differences are the presence of paired rather than confluent nares, the presence of weakly developed zygosphenoidal articulations on the vertebrae, and compressed keeled tooth tips rather than simple cones. It differs from the Paliguana in having a deeper facial process on the maxilla and a