Haematosaurus
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| Haematosaurus Temporal range: Jurassic | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Teleosauridae |
| Genus: | †Haematosaurus Kuhn, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Plesiosaurus lanceolatus (Sauvage, 1874) | |
Haematosaurus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian. Fossils have been found from Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France of Jurassic age.[1] It was originally thought to be a plesiosaur, and the type species was initially assigned to the genus Plesiosaurus in 1874, although it was later reassigned to the new genus in 1934.[2][3] It is now known to have been a marine crocodylomorph.[4] Due to the fragmentary nature of the material associated with the genus, it is currently regarded as a nomen dubium.
