Biology:Clovesuurdameredeor

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles

Clovesuurdameredeor
Temporal range: Bathonian, 168.3–166.1 Ma
Clovesuurdameredeor.png
Holotype skull
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Genus: Clovesuurdameredeor
Johnson et al., 2020
Species:
C. stephani
Binomial name
Clovesuurdameredeor stephani
(Hulke, 1867)
Synonyms

Clovesuurdameredeor (meaning "sea creature of Closworth"; from the Medieval Latin Clovesuurda and the Old English meredeor) is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Bathonian Cornbrash Formation of England .[1]

Illustration of the holotype

The type species, C. stephani, was originally named "Steneosaurus" stephani by Hulke in 1867.[2] Vignaud (1995) considered S. stephani to be a minor synonym of Yvridiosuchus boutilieri (then still in the genus Steneosaurus),[3] but Johnson (2019) and Johnson et al. (2020) discovered that S. stephani was a basal machimosaur that was separate from Yvridiosuchus, erecting the genus Clovesuurdameredeor for this.[4][1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. PMID 33083104. 
  2. Hulke, JW, "Gharial skull from the Cornbrash of Closworth." Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1877, p. 29
  3. Vignaud, P., “The Thalattosuchia, Mesozoic marine crocodiles: phylogenetic systematics, paleoecology, biochronology and palaeogeographical implications." Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Poitiers, 1995, p.410
  4. Johnson, Michela Maria Angeline (2019) (in English). The taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus 'Steneosaurus'. https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/36656. 

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