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Eosuchus lerichei
Taxonomy
Eosuchus lerichei was named by Dollo (1907). Its type specimen is IRSNB 1740, a partial skeleton (skull and partial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jeumont, which is in a Thanetian marine sandstone in the Hannut Formation of France. It is the type species of Eosuchus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1907 | Eosuchus lerichei Dollo |
| 1909 | Eosuchus lerichei Dollo p. 108 |
| 2005 | Eosuchus lerichei Delfino et al. p. 918 |
| 2024 | Eosuchus lerichei Burke et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Eosuchus lerichei Dollo 1907
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Delfino et al. 2005 | A basal gavialoid that can be differentiated from any other crocodylian by the following combination of characters: an unusually enlarged foramen aereum, dentary alveoli arranged in couplets, evident “quadrate crest” ventrally developed at least on quadrates and pterygoids, nasals reaching and deeply entering between premaxillae, W−shaped basioccipital tuberosity. A further peculiarity could be represented by the presence of an unusual “step−like” widening of the orbital margin of prefrontal. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988 | |||||