Libycosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Merycopotamus petrocchii.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Libycosaurus petrocchii in the Museum of Geology and Paleontology of Florence

| name = Libycosaurus

| fossil_range = Middle Miocene to Late Miocene

| taxon = Libycosaurus

| authority = Bonnarelli, 1947

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• †L. algeriensis
• †L. anisae
• †L. petrocchii

}}

Libycosaurus ("Lizard of Libya") was one of the last anthracothere genera. It lived from the Middle to the Late Miocene, and ranged throughout Central and Northern Africa, and in Uganda, in what was then a lush, marshy environment.

{{cite journal |vauthors=Lihoreau F, Boisserie JR, Viriot L, etal |title=Anthracothere dental anatomy reveals a late Miocene Chado-Libyan bioprovince |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=103 |issue=23 |pages=8763–7 |date=June 2006 |pmid=16723392 |pmc=1482652 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0603126103 |bibcode = 2006PNAS..103.8763L |doi-access=free }}