Amphicotylus

Amphicotylus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Tithonian
Skull (OMNH 2392) of Amphicotylus stovalli from Oklahoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Family: Goniopholididae
Genus: Amphicotylus
Cope, 1878
Type species
Amphicotylus lucasii
Cope, 1878
Species[2]
  • A. felix (Marsh, 1877)
  • A. gilmorei? (Holland, 1905)
  • A. lucasii Cope, 1878
  • A. stovalli (Mook, 1964)
  • A. milesi Yoshida et al., 2021[1]

Amphicotylus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian from the Tithonian of Colorado, Wyoming, and Oklahoma.[3][4] It was described in 1878.[5]

  1. ^ Yoshida, J.; Hori, A.; Kobayashi, Y.; Ryan, M.J.; Takakuwa, Y.; Hasegawa, Y. (8 December 2021). "A new goniopholidid from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA: novel insight into aquatic adaptation toward modern crocodylians". The Royal Society. 8 (12). doi:10.1098/rsos.210320. PMC 8652276. PMID 34909210.
  2. ^ Pritchard, A. C.; Turner, A. H.; Allen, E. R. & Norell, M. A. (2013). "Osteology of a North American Goniopholidid (Eutretauranosuchus delfsi) and Palate Evolution in Neosuchia". American Museum Novitates (3783): 1–56. doi:10.1206/3783.2. hdl:2246/6449. S2CID 73539708.
  3. ^ Marco Brandalise de Andrade; Richard Edmonds; Michael J. Benton & Remmert Schouten (2011). "A new Berriasian species of Goniopholis (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 163 (s1): S66–S108. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00709.x.
  4. ^ Puértolas-Pascual, E.; Canudo, J.I. & Sender, L.M. (2015). "New material from a huge specimen of Anteophthalmosuchus cf. escuchae (Goniopholididae) from the Albian of Andorra (Teruel, Spain): Phylogenetic implications". Journal of Iberian Geology. 41 (1): 41–56. doi:10.5209/rev_JIGE.2015.v41.n1.48654.
  5. ^ E. D. Cope. 1878. Descriptions of new extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary and Dakota Formations. 'Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 4(2):379-396