| Phocosaurus Temporal range: Capitanian (Permian) | |
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| A partial skull of Phocosaurus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | † Dinocephalia |
| Family: | † Tapinocephalidae |
| Genus: | † Phocosaurus Seeley, 1888 |
Phocosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsid. It was found in the Capitanian sediments in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa. [1]
