Omosaurus
| 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: | †Omosaurus Leidy, 1856 |
| Species: | †O. perplexus |
| 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. 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.