Termatosaurus
| Termatosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
|---|---|
| Teeth of T. albertii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Clade: | Eucrocopoda |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Genus: | †Termatosaurus Meyer & Plieninger, 1844 |
| Type species | |
| †Termatosaurus albertii Meyer & Plieninger, 1844 | |
| Species | |
Termatosaurus ("End Lizard", due to its appearance in the End Triassic) is a potentially dubious genus of archosaur known from several tooth specimens. Its remains come from the Upper Triassic of France, England, Germany and Switzerland.
Termatosaurus was once thought to have survived until the Early Jurassic, but the attributed Jurassic remains were redescribed as plesiosaur material. Two species are known of this animal: the type species, T. albertii, named by Meyer and T. Plieninger in 1844, and T. crocodilinus, by Quenstedt (1858).
According to Oskar Kuhn, Termatosaurus is a plesiosaur (of the Rhomaleosauridae), while according to other sources, it is a phytosaur.