Diplosaurus

Diplosaurus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Crocodyliformes
Family:	†Goniopholididae
Genus:	†Diplosaurus Marsh, 1877
Species
D. felix Marsh, 1877 (type) D. vebbii (Cope 1874) Marsh, 1877 "D. nanus" Marsh, 1895 (nomen dubium)

Diplosaurus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils have been found from the Western United States and range from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous in age. The genus was first named and described in a paper written in 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh.^[1]