Biology:Yvridiosuchus

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Short description: Extinct genus of marine crocodilians

Yvridiosuchus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic Bathonian
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Holotype of ;'Y. boutilieri and referred specimen (holotype of "S." meretrix)
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Four skulls assigned to Yvridiosuchus at the OUMNH; a skull assigned to Y. boutilieri (A), the holotype skull of "Steneosaurus" meretrix (B), a jaw assigned to Y. boutilieri (C) and the holotype skull of Y. boutilieri (D)
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Tribe: Machimosaurini
Genus: Yvridiosuchus
Johnson et al., 2019
Species:
Y. boutilieri
Binomial name
Yvridiosuchus boutilieri
(Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Steneosaurus boutilieri Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1868
  • Teleosaurus brevidens Philips, 1871
  • "Steneosaurus" meretrix Phizackerley, 1951

Yvridiosuchus (meaning "hybrid crocodile") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Cornbrash Formation of England and the Sommet de la Grande Oolithe, Calvados, France . The type and only known species is Y. boutilieri. Yvridiosuchus is the oldest known member of Machimosaurini, a clade of large, predatory machimosaurids with powerful jaws and teeth. Yvridiosuchus was named on the basis that it has characteristics of both earlier machimosaurids and the derived machimosaurins, such as conical, blunt teeth. It co-existed with the more generalist machimosaurid Deslongchampsina.[1]

References

  1. Michela M. Johnson; Mark T. Young; Stephen L. Brusatte (2019). "Re-description of two contemporaneous mesorostrine teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from the Bathonian of England and insights into the early evolution of Machimosaurini". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society Advanced online publication (2): 449–482. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz037. 

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