Biology:Mycterosuchus
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Scientific classification 
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| Missing taxonomy template (fix): | Archosauria/Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Teleosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Aeolodontinae |
| Genus: | †Mycterosuchus Andrews, 1913 |
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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]
Taxonomy
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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]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
- ↑ Andrews CW. 1913. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part Two. London: British Museum (Natural History), 206 pp.
- ↑ 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. PMID 33083104.
- ↑ S. M. Adams-Tresman. 1987. The Callovian (Midde Jurassic) teleosaurid marine crocodiles from central England. Palaeontology 30(1):195-206
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