Phytosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Holotype jaw of P. cylindricodon | |
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Holotype of P. cubicodon | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Order: | †Phytosauria |
Family: | †Parasuchidae |
Genus: | †Phytosaurus von Jaeger, 1828 |
Type species | |
†Phytosaurus cylindricodon von Jaeger, 1828
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Other species | |
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Phytosaurus (meaning "plant lizard") is a dubious genus of extinct parasuchid phytosaur[1] found in an outcrop of the Keuper (likely the Exter Formation)[2] in Germany. Phytosaurus was the first phytosaur to be described, being done so by Georg Friedrich von Jaeger in 1828.[3] The type species is P. cylindricodon and a second species, P. cubicodon, is also known.[3]