Charitomenosuchus

Charitomenosuchus; Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, middle Callovian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Suborder:	†Thalattosuchia
Family:	†Machimosauridae
Genus:	†Charitomenosuchus; Johnson et al., 2020
Species:	†C. leedsi
Binomial name
	†Charitomenosuchus leedsi; (Andrews, 1909)
Synonyms
	Steneosaurus leedsi Andrews, 1909; Steneosaurus teleosauroides Auer, 1909; Steneosaurus pictaviensis Vignaud, 1998;

Charitomenosuchus (meaning "graceful crocodile") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation of England.[1]

Illustration of the holotype

The type species, C. leedsi, was originally named "Steneosaurus" leedsi by Andrews in 1909 on the basis of three specimens.[2] In her unpublished 2019 thesis, Michela Johnson coined the nomen ex dissertationae Charitomenosuchus for S. leedsi.[3] The genus name was published in 2020.[1]

References

Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808.
C. W. Andrews. 1909. On some new steneosaurs from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3:299-308
"The taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus 'Steneosaurus'". Archives of the University of Edinburgh. 2019.

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[Teleosauroidea-1] Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808.

[2] C. W. Andrews. 1909. On some new steneosaurs from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3:299-308

[3] "The taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus 'Steneosaurus'". Archives of the University of Edinburgh. 2019.