Termatosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Termatosaurus ("End Lizard", due to its appearance in the End Triassic) is a potentially dubious[1] genus of archosaur known from several tooth specimens. Its remains come from the Upper Triassic of France, England, Germany and Switzerland.
| Termatosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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| Teeth of T. albertii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Eucrocopoda |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Genus: | †Termatosaurus Meyer & Plieninger, 1844 |
| Type species | |
| †Termatosaurus albertii Meyer & Plieninger, 1844 | |
| Species | |
Termatosaurus was once thought to have survived until the Early Jurassic, but the attributed Jurassic remains were redescribed as plesiosaur material. Two species are known of this animal: the type species, T. albertii, named by Meyer and T. Plieninger in 1844,[2] and T. crocodilinus, by Quenstedt (1858).
According to Oskar Kuhn, Termatosaurus is a plesiosaur (of the Rhomaleosauridae),[3][4] while according to other sources, it is a phytosaur.[5]
Gallery
Tooth of T. albertii
