| Heptasaurus Temporal range: | |
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| Underside of the skull of Heptasaurus cappelensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | † Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | † Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | † Capitosauria |
| Family: | † Mastodonsauridae |
| Genus: | † Heptasaurus Säve-Söderbergh, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| †Heptasaurus cappelensis (Wepfer , 1923 [originally Mastodonsaurus cappelensis]) | |
Heptasaurus is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosaurian temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae. [1] [2]