Compsosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Order: | †Phytosauria |
Family: | †Parasuchidae |
Genus: | †Compsosaurus Leidy, 1856 |
Type species | |
†Compsosaurus priscus Leidy, 1856
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Synonyms | |
Compsosaurus (meaning "elegant lizard"[1]) is an extinct genus of phytosaur, a crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic. Its fossils have been found in North Carolina. The type species, Compsosaurus priscus, was named by American paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1856,[2] although other sources say 1857.[3][4][5] Compsosaurus may have been the same animal as the related Belodon.
Only four teeth are known, discovered in the Carnian-Rhaetian-aged coal fields of Chatham County, North Carolina (probably Red Sandstone Formation) and the New Oxford Formation of Pennsylvania.[6]
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