Plagiophthalmosuchus

Plagiophthalmosuchus; Temporal range: Early Jurassic,; ~Toarcian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N (Falciferum-Bifrons)
	Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Crocodyliformes
Suborder:	†Thalattosuchia
Parvorder:	†Neothalattosuchia
Superfamily:	†Teleosauroidea
Genus:	†Plagiophthalmosuchus; Johnson et al., 2020
Species:	†P. gracilirostris
Binomial name
	†Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris; (Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020
Synonyms
	Steneosaurus gracilirostris Westphal, 1961;

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[edit]

^ 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.