Deslongchampsina

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Deslongchampsina
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic Bathonian
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Neotype skull
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Genus: Deslongchampsina
Johnson et al., 2019
Species:
D. larteti
Binomial name
Deslongchampsina larteti
(Eudes-Deslongchamp, 1866)

Deslongchampsina is an extinct genus of machimosaurid crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Cornbrash Formation of England and France, possibly from the Calcaire de Caen.

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History

The type species was originally named Steneosaurus lerteti in 1868. The genus Steneosaurus was used as a longtime wastebasket taxon for various teleosauroid specimens and had more than a dozen species. The type species, Steneosaurus rostromajor is undiagnostic, making the genus and species dubious and invalid. Additionally, many species of so called "Steneosaurus" were found to be quite different and unrelated to one another, thus needing new generic names. [1]

In 2019, Michela Johnson and colleagues redescribed "Steneosaurus" larteti, creating the new genus and combination Deslongchampsina larteti.

Classification

Deslongchampsina was an intermediate machimosaurid, being closely related to but not a part of derived subfamily Machimosaurinae.

The cladogram below is from an analysis conducted by Johnson and colleagues in 2020. [1]

Machimosauridae

Ecology

Its snout was not as elongated as some other teleosauroids (mesorostrine), and the shape of its jaws and teeth suggest that it was a generalist predator, unlike the more powerful contemporary machimosaurin Yvridiosuchus . [2]

References

  1. 1 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.
  2. Michela M. Johnson; Mark T. Young; Stephen L. Brusatte (2019). "Re-description of two contemporaneous mesorostrine teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from the Bathonian of England and insights into the early evolution of Machimosaurini". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . Advanced online publication (2): 449–482. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz037. hdl: 1842/36656 .