Clovesuurdameredeor Explained

Clovesuurdameredeor (meaning "sea creature of Closworth"; from the Medieval Latin Clovesuurda and the Old English meredeor) is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Bathonian Cornbrash Formation of England.[1] The type species, C. stephani, was originally named "Steneosaurus" stephani by Hulke in 1867.[2] Vignaud (1995) considered S. stephani to be a minor synonym of Yvridiosuchus boutilieri (then still in the genus Steneosaurus),[3] but Johnson (2019) and Johnson et al. (2020) discovered that S. stephani was a basal machimosaur that was separate from Yvridiosuchus, erecting the genus Clovesuurdameredeor for this.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Johnson . Michela M. . Young . Mark T. . Brusatte . Stephen L. . The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution . PeerJ . 2020 . 8 . e9808 . 10.7717/peerj.9808. 33083104 . 7548081 . free .
  2. Hulke, JW, "Gharial skull from the Cornbrash of Closworth." Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1877, p. 29
  3. Vignaud, P., “The Thalattosuchia, Mesozoic marine crocodiles: phylogenetic systematics, paleoecology, biochronology and palaeogeographical implications." Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Poitiers, 1995, p.410
  4. The taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus 'Steneosaurus'. Archives of the University of Edinburgh. English. 2019. Johnson. Michela Maria Angeline.

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