Plagiophthalmosuchus | |
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Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | † Thalattosuchia |
Parvorder: | † Neothalattosuchia |
Superfamily: | † Teleosauroidea |
Genus: | †
Plagiophthalmosuchus Johnson et al., 2020 |
Species: | †P. gracilirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris (Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020
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Synonyms | |
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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]
Plagiophthalmosuchus | |
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Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | † Thalattosuchia |
Parvorder: | † Neothalattosuchia |
Superfamily: | † Teleosauroidea |
Genus: | †
Plagiophthalmosuchus Johnson et al., 2020 |
Species: | †P. gracilirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris (Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020
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Synonyms | |
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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]