Lemmysuchus
Lemmysuchus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Holotype skull in multiple views | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
Family: | †Machimosauridae |
Subfamily: | † Machimosaurinae
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Tribe: | † Machimosaurini
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Genus: | †Lemmysuchus Johnson, Young et al., 2017 |
Species: | †L. obtusidens
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Binomial name | |
†Lemmysuchus obtusidens Andrews, 1909
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Lemmysuchus is a genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic Callovian of England and France. Like many other teleosauroids from Europe, it has had a convoluted taxonomic history.
History
"Steneosaurus" obtusidens was first described from the
The validity of "Steneosaurus" obtusidens was disputed in a 1987 paper reviewing the type specimens of nominal teleosauroid species from the Oxford Clay. Characters used by Charles William Andrews to distinguish "S." obtusidens from other species were dismissed as variable within specimens of Steneosaurus edwardsi, and "S." obtusidens was sunk as a junior synonym of Steneosaurus durobrivensis (=S. edwardsi).[2] Some authors considered this taxon a probable junior synonym of Machimosaurus hughii based on a subsequently discovered specimen found in Callovian-age exposures in Calvados, Lower Normandy, France, though they stressed that a taxonomic review of blunt-snouted teleosaurids was needed.[3][4] This synonymy was accepted in a 2009 paper regarding thalattosuchian morphometrics without comment.[5]
In 2013, a new specimen of Machimosaurus was described from Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian deposits in southern Germany (later named Machimosaurus buffetauti), and it became clear that variation within blunt-toothed teleosauroids was taxonomically significant enough for "Steneosaurus" obtusidens to be recognized as generically distinct from Machimosaurus.[6] Other cladistic and comparative studies agreed with this assessment, recovering "S." obtusidens in a clade with Machimosaurus and Steneosaurus edwardsi.[7][8][9][10]
In 2017, the species was moved to its own genus, Lemmysuchus, referring to
References
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- ^ Adams-Tresman, S. M. (1987). "The Callovian (Middle Jurassic) teleosaurid marine crocodiles from central England". Palaeontology. 30 (1): 195–206.
- ^ Hua, Vignaud; Pennetier; Pennetier (1994). "Un squelette de Steneosaurus obtusidens Andrews, 1909 dans le Callovien de Villers-sur-mer(Calvados, France)et le problème de la definition des Teleosauridae à dents obtuses". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II. 318: 1557–1562.
- ^ Hua, S., 1999, Le Crocodilien Machimosaurus mosae (Thalattosuchia, Teleosauridae) du Kimmeridgien du Boulonnais (Pas de Calais, France): Palaeontographica Abt. A., v. 252, Lfg. 4-6, p. 141-170.
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- ^ Mueller-Töwe, IJ (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Thalattosuchia". Zitteliana. 45: 211–213.
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