Proexochokefalos

Proexochokefalos
Temporal range: Callovian-Kimmeridgian
~165–152 Ma
Skull of P. heberti
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
Subfamily: Machimosaurinae
Genus: Proexochokefalos
Johnson et al., 2020
Type species
Proexochokefalos heberti
(Morel de Glasville, 1876)
Other species
  • P. cf. bouchardi (Sauvage, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Steneosaurus cf. bouchardi Sauvage, 1872

Proexochokefalos (meaning "big head with big tuberosities") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Jurassic of France[1]

  1. ^ 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.