Priosphenodon

Priosphenodon
Temporal range:
Reconstructed skeleton of P. avelasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Rhynchocephalia
Suborder: Sphenodontia
Subfamily: †Eilenodontinae
Genus: †Priosphenodon
Apesteguia & Novas 2003
Species
  • †P. avelasi Apestiguia & Novas 2003
  • †P. minimus Apestiguia & Carballido 2014

Priosphenodon is an extinct, large herbivorous eilenodontine rhynchocephalian known from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Turonian) of Argentina. It is one of the largest known sphenodontians.

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