Stenotosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Middle Triassic]], {{fossil range|Anisian}} | image = Stenotosaurus stantonensis.jpg | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = Restoration of ''Stenotosaurus stantonensis'' | taxon = Stenotosaurus | authority = [[Alfred Sherwood Romer|Romer]], 1947 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Stenotosaurus semiclausus''''' | type_species_authority = Romer, 1947 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision = * {{extinct}}'''''S. gracilis''''' Kamphausen, 1983 * {{extinct}}'''''S. stantonensis''''' Kamphausen, 1983 }}

'''''Stenotosaurus''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of [[capitosauria]]n [[temnospondyl]] within the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Stenotosauridae]]. It is known from three species, all of which lived during the [[Anisian]] stage of the [[Middle Triassic]]. Fossils have been found in England and Germany.<ref name=DRJ01>{{Cite journal | last1 = Damiani | first1 = R. J. | title = A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli) | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 133 | issue = 4 | pages = 379–482 | year = 2001 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

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[[Category:Capitosauria]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Europe]] [[Category:Taxa named by Alfred Romer]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1947]] [[Category:Anisian genera]]