Published January 20, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Turnersuchus Wilberg & Godoy & Griffiths & Turner & Benson 2023, gen. nov.

  • 1. Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, U. S. A.
  • 2. Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, U. S. A. & Department of Biology, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14040 - 901, Brazil & Department of Zoology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná
  • 3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX 1 3 AN, U. K.

Description

TURNERSUCHUS, gen. nov.

Type SpeciesTurnersuchus hingleyae

Etymology —After Paul Turner, who discovered and donated the initial block of the specimen and “suchus,” from the Latinized form of “soukhos,” Greek for crocodile.

Diagnosis —As for the type species.

Notes

Published as part of Wilberg, Eric W., Godoy, Pedro L., Griffiths, Elizabeth F., Turner, Alan H. & Benson, Roger B. J., 2023, A new early diverging thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) from the Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Dorset, U. K. and implications for the origin and evolution of the group, pp. 1-23 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42 (3) on page 3, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2022.2161909, http://zenodo.org/record/7594138

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