| Prolacertoides Temporal range: Early Triassic,
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| The holotype skull of Prolacertoides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Prolacertoides Yang, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| †Prolacertoides jimusarensis Yang, 1973
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Prolacertoides is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile from the Early Triassic of China, the type species being Prolacertoides jimusarensis.[1] Prolacertoides means 'like Prolacerta', in reference to Prolacerta, another genus of archosauromorph which Prolacertoides was once believed to have been closely related to. Prolacertoides is known from a single partial skull, IVPP V3233, which was discovered in Xinjiang in northwestern China. The locality of its discovery belongs to the Cangfanggou Group of the Jiucaiyuan Formation, which is dated to the Induan age of the very early Triassic.[2]
- ^ Young, C.-C. (1973). "The discovery of prolacertilian skull from Jimusar, Xinjiang". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 11 (1): 46–48.
- ^ Ezcurra, Martín D. (2016-04-28). "The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms". PeerJ. 4: e1778. doi:10.7717/peerj.1778. PMC 4860341. PMID 27162705.