Platysuchus Explained

Platysuchus ("flat crocodile") is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of southern Germany and Luxembourg.

Taxonomy

Platysuchus was originally described as a member of the genus Mystriosaurus, as M. multiscrobiculatus.[1] However, Westphal (1961) found M. multiscrobiculatus generically distinct from Mystriosaurus and renamed it Platysuchus.[2]

Distribution

Platysuchus has been found in Toarcian age marine deposits in southern Germany and Luxembourg.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. B E R CK H E ME R, F. 1929. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Krokodilier des schwa¨bischen oberen Lias.Neues Jahrbuch fu¨r Mineralogie, Geologie und Pala¨ontologie, Abteilung B,64, 1–60.
  2. F. Westphal. 1961. Zu Systematik der deutschen und englischen Lias-Krokodilier [The systemarics of the German and English Lias crocodiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 113(2):207-218
  3. Michela M. Johnson, Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte, Ben Thuy & Robert Weis (2018): A catalogue of teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from the Toarcian and Bajocian (Jurassic) of southern Luxembourg, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1427090

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