Termatosaurus

Not to be confused with Telmatosaurus or Trematosaurus.

Termatosaurus ("End Lizard", due to its appearance in the End Triassic) is a potentially dubious^[1] genus of archosaur known from several tooth specimens. Its remains come from the Upper Triassic of France, England, Germany and Switzerland.

Termatosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic, 203–201 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Teeth of T. albertii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Eucrocopoda
Clade:	Archosauria
Genus:	†Termatosaurus Meyer & Plieninger, 1844
Type species
†Termatosaurus albertii Meyer & Plieninger, 1844
Species
†T. albertii Meyer & Plieninger, 1844 (type) †T. crocodilinus Quenstedt, 1858

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,^[2] and T. crocodilinus, by Quenstedt (1858).

According to Oskar Kuhn, Termatosaurus is a plesiosaur (of the Rhomaleosauridae),^[3][4] while according to other sources, it is a phytosaur.^[5]

Gallery

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  Tooth of T. albertii