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Eptalofosuchus viridi
Taxonomy
Eptalofosuchus viridi was named by Marinho et al. (2022). Its type specimen is MCT 1863-R, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Water well, gas station, BR-050 highway, southern Uberaba city, which is in a Campanian fluvial sandstone in the Uberaba Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Eptalofosuchus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2022 | Eptalofosuchus viridi Marinho 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.
†Eptalofosuchus viridi Marinho et al. 2022
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. S. Marinho et al. 2022 | Small-sized “advanced notosuchian” with the following association of features (autapomorphies marked with an asterisk): dentary with ten tooth positions; symphyseal teeth increase discreetly in size posteriorly; *posterior tooth with large labial accessory cusp separated from main cusp by deep groove; high posterior symphyseal region (almost three times tall than below the level of third tooth), tapering anteriorly; well-marked ventral process on posteroventral symphyseal margin; *relative length and width of anterior (parallel sided) process of the dentary symphysis is elongated, being approximately twice as long as wide; *lateral surface of dentary mostly vertically oriented, continuous with the rest of its lateral surface below the alveolar margin, at mid to posterior region of tooth row; anterior edge of the mandibular fenestra more posteriorly placed than in Morrinhosuchus; large size of some neurovascular foramina placed on the mid to posterior region, parallel to alveolar edge of the dentary. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983 | |||||