Paracyclotosaurus (meaning "Near Wheeled Lizard") is an extinct genus of temnospondyl, which would have appeared similar to today's salamander – but much larger, measuring up to 2.45 m (8.0 ft) long and weighing between 159 and 365 kg (351 and 805 lb).

[1] It lived in the Middle Triassic period, about 235 million years ago, and fossils have been found in Australia, India, and South Africa.

They had flattened bodies and elongated heads, almost 60 centimetres (2 ft) long, that vaguely resembled those of modern crocodiles.

The discovery, made in 1910, was from a large ironstone nodule within Ashfield Shale which contained the nearly complete skeleton.

Paracyclotosaurus davidii was named after Sir Edgeworth David, the man who arranged for the British Museum (Natural History) to acquire the specimen.