Phytosaurus
| Phytosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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| Holotype jaw of P. cylindricodon | |
| 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 | |
| Other species | |
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Phytosaurus (meaning "plant lizard") is a dubious genus of extinct parasuchid phytosaur found in an outcrop of the Keuper (likely the Exter Formation) in Germany. Phytosaurus was the first phytosaur to be described, being done so by Georg Friedrich von Jaeger in 1828. The type species is P. cylindricodon and a second species, P. cubicodon, is also known.