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Anglosuchus geoffroyi
Taxonomy
Steneosaurus geoffroyi was named by Owen (1884). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Great Oolite, Oxford (non-specific locality), which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in the Great Oolite Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Anglosuchus.
It was recombined as Anglosuchus geoffroyi by Mook (1942).
It was recombined as Anglosuchus geoffroyi by Mook (1942).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1884 | Steneosaurus geoffroyi Owen |
| 1942 | Anglosuchus geoffroyi Mook p. 1 |
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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.
†Anglosuchus geoffroyi Owen 1884
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. C. Mook 1942 | The characters of Anglosuchus; orbits subeircular; the posterior process of prefrontal broad; the posterior process of the prefrontal terminates abruptly, part of the nasoprefrontal suture being essentially transverse; the nasals narrow gradually in the anterior direction. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983 | |||||