Omosaurus Temporal range:
Late Triassic, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Clade: | Crurotarsi |
Genus: | โ Omosaurus Leidy, 1856 |
Species: | †O. perplexus
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Binomial name | |
†Omosaurus perplexus Leidy, 1856
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Omosaurus is a dubious genus of extinct crurotarsan reptile, possibly a phytosaur, from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of North Carolina.[1] Only scant remains are known, which makes Omosaurus hard to classify. The type, and only species, Omosaurus perplexus, was named and described in 1856 by Joseph Leidy.[1]