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Platysuchus Temporal range: Toarcian
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Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
Family: | †Teleosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Teleosaurinae |
Genus: | †Platysuchus Westphal, 1961 |
Species: | †P. multiscrobiculatus
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Binomial name | |
†Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus (Berckhemer, 1929)
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Platysuchus ("flat crocodile") is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of southern Germany and Luxembourg.
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]
Platysuchus has been found in Toarcian age marine deposits in southern Germany and Luxembourg.[3]