| Chelyoposuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | † Sauropterygia |
| Order: | † Placodontia |
| Family: | † Henodontidae |
| Genus: | † Chelyoposuchus Kuhn, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| †Chelyoposuchus crassisquamatus Kuhn, 1939 | |
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Chelyoposuchus is an extinct genus of henodontid placodont found at the Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt, Germany. [1] [2] The type species, C. crassisquamatus, was named in 1939. [3] It was found in the Knollenmergel Member of the Trossingen Formation, which dates to the late Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma) and the holotype was collected by Otto Jaekel between 1909 and 1913. [3]