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Clovesuurdameredeor

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Clovesuurdameredeor
Temporal range: Bathonian, 168.3–166.1 Ma
Holotype skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Genus: Clovesuurdameredeor
Johnson et al., 2020
Species:
C. stephani
Binomial name
Clovesuurdameredeor stephani
(Hulke, 1867)
Synonyms

Clovesuurdameredeor (meaning "sea creature of Closworth"; from the Medieval Latin Clovesuurda and the Old English meredeor) is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Bathonian Cornbrash Formation of England.[1]

Illustration of the holotype

The type species, C. stephani, was originally named "Steneosaurus" stephani by Hulke in 1867.[2] Vignaud (1995) considered S. stephani to be a minor synonym of Yvridiosuchus boutilieri (then still in the genus Steneosaurus),[3] but Johnson (2019) and Johnson et al. (2020) discovered that S. stephani was a basal machimosaur that was separate from Yvridiosuchus, erecting the genus Clovesuurdameredeor for this.[4][1]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. PMC 7548081. PMID 33083104.
  2. ^ Hulke, JW, "Gharial skull from the Cornbrash of Closworth." Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1877, p. 29
  3. ^ Vignaud, P., “The Thalattosuchia, Mesozoic marine crocodiles: phylogenetic systematics, paleoecology, biochronology and palaeogeographical implications." Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Poitiers, 1995, p.410
  4. ^ Johnson, Michela Maria Angeline (2019). "The taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus 'Steneosaurus'". Archives of the University of Edinburgh.