Plagiophthalmosuchus
Plagiophthalmosuchus is a genus of teleosauroid, known form the Early Jurassic (Early Toarcian) Whitby Mudstone Formation of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK, and Dudelange, Luxembourg. The type species, P. gracilirostris, was originally named as a species of Teleosaurus in 1836, but then it was moved to Steneosaurus in 1961,[1] but it was again moved to its own genus in 2020.[2]
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| Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Superfamily: | †Teleosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plagiophthalmosuchus Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †P. gracilirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris (Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020 | |
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Lithograph of the holotype
References
- F. Westphal. 1961. Zu Systematik der deutschen und englischen Lias-Krokodilier [The systemarics of the German and English Lias crocodiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 113(2):207-218
- 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.
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