Charitomenosuchus

Charitomenosuchus (meaning "graceful crocodile") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation of England.^[1]

Illustration of the holotype

Charitomenosuchus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, middle Callovian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype skull and vertebra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Crocodyliformes
Suborder:	†Thalattosuchia
Family:	†Machimosauridae
Genus:	†Charitomenosuchus Johnson et al., 2020
Species:	†C. leedsi
Binomial name
†Charitomenosuchus leedsi (Andrews, 1909)
Synonyms
Steneosaurus leedsi Andrews, 1909 Steneosaurus teleosauroides Auer, 1909 Steneosaurus pictaviensis Vignaud, 1998

The type species, C. leedsi, was originally named "Steneosaurus" leedsi by Andrews in 1909 on the basis of three specimens.^[2] In her unpublished 2019 thesis, Michela Johnson coined the nomen ex dissertationae Charitomenosuchus for S. leedsi.^[3] The genus name was published in 2020.^[1]

References

1. Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808. PMC 7548081. PMID 33083104.
2. C. W. Andrews. 1909. On some new steneosaurs from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3:299-308
3. Johnson, Michela Maria Angeline (2019). "The taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus 'Steneosaurus'". Archives of the University of Edinburgh.