| Variodens Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | †Allokotosauria |
| Order: | †Trilophosauria |
| Family: | †Trilophosauridae |
| Genus: | †Variodens Robinson, 1957 |
| Type species | |
| †Variodens inopinatus Robinson, 1957
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Variodens is an extinct genus of trilophosaur. Fossils have been found from the Emborough Quarries in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, England. These fossils have been uncovered from a Late Triassic fissure fill within Carboniferous-age limestone.[1] The type and only known species is V. inopinatus, named in 1957.[2]
- ^ Murry, P.A. (1987). "New reptiles from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona". Journal of Paleontology. 61 (4): 773–786. doi:10.1017/S0022336000029127.
- ^ Robinson, P.L. (1957). "An unusual sauropsid dentition". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 43 (291): 283–293. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1957.tb01554.x.