Priosphenodon

Priosphenodon
Temporal range:
Reconstructed skeleton of P. avelasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Lepidosauria
Order:
Rhynchocephalia
Subfamily:
†Eilenodontinae
Genus:
†Priosphenodon

Apesteguia & Novas 2003
Species
  • †P. avelasi Apestiguia & Novas 2003
  • †P. minimus Apestiguia & Carballido 2014

Priosphenodon is an extinct, large herbiviorous eilenodontine rhynchocephalian known from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Turonian) of Argentina. It is one of the largest known sphenodontians.

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