Pedeticosaurus
| Pedeticosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Genus: | †Pedeticosaurus Van Hoepen, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| †Pedeticosaurus leviseuri Van Hoepen, 1915
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Pedeticosaurus is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph from the Clarens Formation (Early Jurassic) of South Africa. The type species Pedeticosaurus leviseuri was named by Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen in 1915 on the basis of a mold of a mostly complete skeleton found in a quarry near Rosendal, Free State. The mold preserves most of the right half of the skeleton including the skull, ribs, dorsal vertebrae, forelimbs and hindlimbs, tail, and both dermal and ventral osteoderms, separated on two slabs. It is currently housed in the National Museum in Bloemfontein and cataloged as NMQR606.