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Platysuchus multicrobiculatus
Taxonomy
Mystriosaurus multicrobiculatus was named by Berckhemer (1929). Its type specimen is SMNS 9930 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Holzmaden, epsilon II/6, Uppsala pterosaur, which is in a Toarcian marine shale in the Posidonia Shale Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Platysuchus.
It was recombined as Platysuchus multicrobiculatus by Westphal (1961), Pierce et al. (2009), Bronzati et al. (2012).
It was recombined as Platysuchus multicrobiculatus by Westphal (1961), Pierce et al. (2009), Bronzati et al. (2012).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1929 | Mystriosaurus multicrobiculatus Berckhemer p. 20 figs. plate 4 |
| 1961 | Platysuchus multicrobiculatus Westphal pp. 212-215 |
| 2009 | Platysuchus multicrobiculatus Pierce et al. p. 1087 |
| 2012 | Platysuchus multicrobiculatus Bronzati et al. |
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†Platysuchus multicrobiculatus Berckhemer 1929
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. E. Pierce et al. 2009 | Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus is a long-snouted teleosaurid characterized by relatively small skull (45 per cent of trunk length); long, thin rostrum with broadly enlarged premaxilla; sub-circular, dorsally directed orbit; jugal excluded from orbital rim; supratemporal fenestra relatively small and slightly longer than wide; extensive ornamentation on cranial bones including prefrontal, nasal, lacrimal, jugal, postorbital, squamosal, frontal and parietal; c. 30–30 maxillary teeth and 37–40 mandibular teeth; and teeth slender, conical, pointed, apically recurved and covered with fine longitudinal striations |
Measurements
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Age range: Early/Lower Toarcian or 184.20000 to 182.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Toarcian | Germany (Baden-Württenburg) | Mystriosaurus multicrobiculatus (type locality: 91698) | |
| Falciferum | Luxembourg (Mondercange) | Platysuchus multicrobiculatus (224066) |