Talk:Termatosaurus

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[edit] Termatosaurus, a phytosaur

Actually, Termatosaurus is a genus of phytosaur named by Hermann von Meyer and T. Plieninger in 1844. The type species is Termatosaurus albertii von Meyer & Plieninger, 1844, with a second species, T. crocodilinus Quenstedt, 1852. Therefore remove Termatosaurus from the category "Invalid dinosaurs" and tranfer it to the category "Phytosaurs".

http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/phyto.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.194.116.63 (talk • contribs) 03:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

The man is absolutely right. Termatosaurus appears to have wormed its way onto modern dinosaur genera lists as a typo\transposition taking a couple of species from Tetragonosaurus, when it was really a phytosaur all along. J. Spencer 16:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)