| Ankistrodon | |
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| Holotype in (A) lateral and (B) posterior views, with (C) a cross section of a tooth | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Archosauriformes |
| Family: | Proterosuchidae |
| Genus: | Ankistrodon Huxley, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Ankistrodon indicus |
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Ankistrodon is an extinct genus of archosaur first thought to be a dinosaur. It was later determined to be a proterosuchid archosauriform. The type species is A. indicus, described by prolific British zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1865. One authority in the 1970s classified Ankistrodon as a junior synonym of Proterosuchus.[1]