Neosaurus

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Neosaurus
Fossil range: Early Permian
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Pelycosauria
Family: Sphenacodontidae
Genus: Neosaurus
Nopsca, 1923
Species
  • Neosaurus cynodus (Gervais, 1869) Nopsca, 1923

Neosaurus is a little-known pelycosaur of the family Sphenacodontidae. It was related to the well known Dimetrodon, although much smaller (about 1 m in length) and lived during the Early Permian. Its fossils were found in the Jura region of France.

A species of the hadrosaur dinosaur Hypsibema, H. missouriensis, is also called Neosaurus, although because the name was already in use, that species was renamed Parrosaurus before being reassigned to Hypsibema.