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]
References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
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