| Lotosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Ladinian),
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| A mounted skeleton of Lotosaurus at the Beijing Museum of Natural History. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Poposauroidea |
| Family: | †Lotosauridae Zhang, 1975 |
| Genus: | †Lotosaurus Zhang, 1975 |
| Type species | |
| †Lotosaurus adentus Zhang, 1975
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Lotosaurus is an extinct genus of sail-backed poposauroid known from Hunan Province of central China.[1]
- ^ Sterling J. Nesbitt (2011). "The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 352: 1–292. doi:10.1206/352.1. hdl:2246/6112. S2CID 83493714.