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,^[1] but it was again moved to its own genus in 2020.^[2]

Plagiophthalmosuchus Temporal range: Early Jurassic, ~Toarcian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N (Falciferum-Bifrons)
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
Synonyms
Steneosaurus gracilirostris Westphal, 1961

Lithograph of the holotype

References

1. F. Westphal. (1961). Zu Systematik der deutschen und englischen Lias-Krokodilier [The systematics of the German and English Lias crocodiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 113(2):207-218
2. 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.