Plagiophthalmosuchus
Plagiophthalmosuchus is a genus of teleosauroid, known form the Early Jurassic (Early Toarcian) Whitby Mudstone Formation of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK, and Dudelange, Luxembourg. The type species, P. gracilirostris, was originally named as a species of Teleosaurus in 1836, but then it was moved to Steneosaurus in 1961, but it was again moved to its own genus in 2020.
| Plagiophthalmosuchus | |
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| Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Parvorder: | †Neothalattosuchia |
| Superfamily: | †Teleosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plagiophthalmosuchus Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †P. gracilirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris (Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020 | |
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