| Macrospondylus Temporal range: Toarcian
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| Macrospondylus bollensis, Holzmaden Germany | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Superfamily: | †Teleosauroidea |
| Family: | †Machimosauridae |
| Genus: | †Macrospondylus von Meyer, 1831 |
| Species: | †M. bollensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Macrospondylus bollensis Jäger, 1828
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Macrospondylus is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of Europe. Fossils are known from the Posidonia Shale of Germany, the Whitby Mudstone of the United Kingdom, and the "schistes bitumineux" of Luxembourg.