Yvridiosuchus

Yvridiosuchus (meaning "hybrid crocodile") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Cornbrash Formation of England and the Sommet de la Grande Oolithe, Calvados, France. The type and only known species is Y. boutilieri. Yvridiosuchus is the oldest known member of Machimosaurini, a clade of large, predatory machimosaurids with powerful jaws and teeth. Yvridiosuchus was named on the basis that it has characteristics of both earlier machimosaurids and the derived machimosaurins, such as conical, blunt teeth. It co-existed with the more generalist machimosaurid Deslongchampsina.[1]

Yvridiosuchus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic Bathonian
Holotype and referred specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Tribe: Machimosaurini
Genus: Yvridiosuchus
Johnson et al., 2019
Species:
Y. boutilieri
Binomial name
Yvridiosuchus boutilieri
(Eudes-Deslongchamp, 1868)
Synonyms

References

  1. Michela M. Johnson; Mark T. Young; Stephen L. Brusatte (2019). "Re-description of two contemporaneous mesorostrine teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from the Bathonian of England and insights into the early evolution of Machimosaurini". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz037. hdl:1842/36656.


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