Platysuchus
Appearance
Platysuchus Temporal range: Toarcian
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Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
Family: | †Teleosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Teleosaurinae |
Genus: | †Platysuchus Westphal, 1961 |
Species: | †P. multiscrobiculatus
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Binomial name | |
†Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus (Berckhemer, 1929)
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Platysuchus ("flat crocodile") is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of southern Germany and Luxembourg.
Taxonomy
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Platysuchus was originally described as a member of the genus Mystriosaurus, as M. multiscrobiculatus.[1] However, Westphal (1961) found M. multiscrobiculatus generically distinct from Mystriosaurus and renamed it Platysuchus.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Platysuchus has been found in Toarcian age marine deposits in southern Germany and Luxembourg.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ B E R CK H E ME R , F. 1929. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Krokodilier des schwa¨bischen oberen Lias.Neues Jahrbuch fu¨r Mineralogie, Geologie und Pala¨ontologie, Abteilung B,64, 1–60.
- ^ 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
- ^ Michela M. Johnson, Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte, Ben Thuy & Robert Weis (2018): A catalogue of teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from the Toarcian and Bajocian (Jurassic) of southern Luxembourg, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1427090
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