| Chelyoposuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic, 205.6–201.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Placodontia |
| Family: | †Henodontidae |
| Genus: | †Chelyoposuchus Kuhn, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| †Chelyoposuchus crassisquamatus Kuhn, 1939 | |
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Chelyoposuchus is an extinct genus of henodontid placodont found at the Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt, Germany. The type species, C. crassisquamatus, was named in 1939. It was found in the Knollenmergel Member of the Trossingen Formation, which dates to the late Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma) and the holotype was collected by Otto Jaekel between 1909 and 1913.
References
- Palaeont. Z., 21 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
- Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560
- ^ O. Kuhn. (1939). Beiträge zur Keuperfauna von Halberstadt . Paläontologische Zeitschrift 21:258-286
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| Chelyoposuchus | |