Lotosaurus

Lotosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Ladinian), 238.0 Ma
A mounted skeleton of Lotosaurus at the Beijing Museum of Natural History.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

Lotosaurus is an extinct genus of sail-backed poposauroid known from Hunan Province of central China.[1]

  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.