Meridiosaurus
| Meridiosaurus Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Pholidosauridae |
| Genus: | †Meridiosaurus Mones, 1980 |
| Species: | †M. vallisparadisi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi Mones, 1980
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Meridiosaurus is an extinct genus of mesoeucrocodylian that is a member of the family Pholidosauridae. Remains have been found in the Late Jurassic Tacuarembó Formation in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The genus was described in 1980 on the basis of a partial rostrum that included the premaxillae and most of the maxillae. The assignment to Pholidosauridae is considered doubtful by some authors, but a 2011 redescription and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the pholidosaurid classification of Meridiosaurus.