Zanclodon

Zanclodon
Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
Holotype of Z. laevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: incertae sedis
Genus: Zanclodon
Plieninger, 1847
Type species
Zanclodon laevis
(Plieninger, 1846)
Synonyms

Zanclodon ("scythe tooth") is an extinct genus of archosauriform from the Erfurt Formation in southern Germany. It was once a wastebasket taxon until a taxonomic revision by Schoch (2011) left only the paratype (SMNS 6045) within Zanclodon laevis proper. The type species is Z. laevis.