| Named By: | C. F. Kammerer & C. A. Sidor in 2002 |
| Time Period: | Capitanian |
| Location: | South Africa |
| Size: | Between 2.5 to 3 meters long |
| Diet: | Herbivore |
| Fossil(s): | Skulls of many individuals |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Dinocephalia | Tapinocephalidae | |
| Also known as: | | Criocephalus vanderbyli | |
Criocephalosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsid which existed in Southern Africa. It was originally named Criocephalus, but the name was preoccupied by a beetle genus. There are two named species, C. vanderbyli and C. gunyankaensis: the range of the latter may have been farther north than that of C. vanderbyli. Boonstra (1963) considers this taxon the most specialized of the moschopines.