Plagiophthalmosuchus

Plagiophthalmosuchus
Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Binomial name
Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris
(Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020
Synonyms
Lithograph of the holotype

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]

  1. ^ F. Westphal. (1961). Zu Systematik der deutschen und englischen Lias-Krokodilier [The systematics of the German and English Lias crocodiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 113(2):207-218
  2. ^ 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.