| Elephantosaurus Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| An artist's illustration of Elephantosaurus jachimovitschI | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Amniota |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
| Genus: | †Elephantosaurus Vjuschkov, 1969 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Elephantosaurus jachimovitschi Vjuschkov, 1969 | |
Elephantosaurus (meaning "elephant lizard") is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid from the Triassic. Elephantosaurus is estimated to have around the size of a small horse. It probably used its sharp tusk-like teeth to dig up small shrubs in the ground or to dig up small insects.