Platyognathus hsui Young 1944 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata

Full reference: C.-C. Young. 1944. On a supposed new pseudosuchian from Upper Triassic saurischian-bearing Red Beds of Lufeng, Yunnan, China. American Museum Novitates 1264:1-4

Belongs to Platyognathus according to X.-C. Wu and H.-D. Sues 1996

See also Charig 1967, Simmons 1965, Young 1944 and Young 1951

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CRL V.71 (neotype: IVPP V8266), a mandible. Its type locality is Huangchiatien, Lufeng, which is in a Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Lufeng Formation of China.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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