Published November 19, 2009 | Version v1
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Laganosuchus Sereno & Larsson 2009, gen. n.

  • 1. University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
  • 2. Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal ,, Canada

Description

Laganosuchus gen. n.

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Etymology. Laganon, pancake (Greek); souchos, crocodile (Greek). Named for the shallow depth of its skull.

Type species. Laganosuchus thaumastos.

Diagnosis. Mid-sized (̴ 4–6 m) stomatosuchid with spaced teeth and an undulating, or festooned, alveolar margin; spike-shaped crowns that lack recurvature; crowns flattened buccolingually with sharp unornamented mesial and distal carinae; d1 enlarged (subequal to d4 caniniform); postcaniniform teeth (d5–24) gradually decrease in size; Meckel’s canal developed as a very narrow, sharply delimited groove on the anterior one-half of the dentary.

Notes

Published as part of Sereno, Paul & Larsson, Hans, 2009, Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara, pp. 1-143 in ZooKeys 28 (28) on page 78, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.28.325, http://zenodo.org/record/576570

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Identifiers

Biodiversity

Family
Stomatosuchidae
Genus
Laganosuchus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Crocodylia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Sereno & Larsson
Taxonomic status
gen. n.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Laganosuchus Sereno & Larsson, 2009