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Platysuchus

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Platysuchus Temporal range: 183–176 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Toarcian

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
Binomial name
†Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus (Berckhemer, 1929)

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

Taxonomy[edit]

Close ups of various parts of the holotype

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ 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.

^ 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

^ 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