Mycterosuchus

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Mycterosuchus
Temporal range: Callovian, 167–162  Ma
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Holotype skull
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder:† Thalattosuchia
Family:† Teleosauridae
Subfamily:† Aeolodontinae
Genus:† Mycterosuchus
Andrews, 1913
Species
  • †M. nasutusAndrews, 1909 (type)

Mycterosuchus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of England. Although previously synonymized with Steneosaurus , recent cladistic analysis considers it distantly related to the Steneosaurus type species. [1]

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Taxonomy

Holotype elements A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London (1910) (20685713180).jpg
Holotype elements

The name Mycterosuchus was coined for Steneosaurus nasutus by Andrews in 1913 in his catalogue of thalattosuchians from the Oxford Clay of southern England. [2] The genus name is derived from the Latin word for nose (mycto) and the Greek word for crocodile (soukhos), together meaning '(long) nose crocodile'. [3] Mycterosuchus nasutus was synonymized with Steneosaurus leedsi by Adams-Tresmand in 1987, but is recovered as a distinct species in the cladistic analysis of Osi et al. of 2018. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ősi A, Young MT, Galácz A, Rabi M. (2018) A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary, with further evidence of the mosaic acquisition of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea. PeerJ 6:e4668 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4668
  2. ↑ Andrews CW. 1913. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part Two. London: British Museum (Natural History), 206 pp.
  3. ↑ Johnson, M.M.; Young, M.T.; Brusatte, S.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.
  4. ↑ S. M. Adams-Tresman. 1987. The Callovian (Middle Jurassic) teleosaurid marine crocodiles from central England. Palaeontology 30(1):195-206
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