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Monjurosuchus splendens
Taxonomy
Monjurosuchus splendens was named by Endo (1940) [original type "reportedly lost during World War II" (Gao et al. 2000)]. Its type specimen is Former Central National Museum of Manchoukou no. 3671 (holotype, destroyed); GMV 2167 (neotype), a partial skeleton (nearly complete skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Tanankou, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine - large shale/sandstone in the Yixian Formation of China. It is the type species of Monjurosuchus.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Monjurosuchus splendens Endo p. 3 figs. 1-2 |
| 1942 | Rhynchosaurus orientalis Endo and Shikama pp. 2-6 figs. 1-3 |
| 2000 | Monjurosuchus splendens Gao et al. p. 417 |
| 2005 | Monjurosuchus splendens Gao and Fox p. 438 |
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†Monjurosuchus splendens Endo 1940
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Invalid names: Rhynchosaurus orientalis Endo and Shikama 1942 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| K. -Q. Gao et al. 2000 | A medium-sized (snout-vent length up to 300 mm) choristoderan reptile characterized by the possession of a small supratemporal fenestra; infratemporal fenestra secondarily closed by expansion of postorbital, quadratojugal and squamosal; frontal markedly narrow and constricted; gastralia extremely slender, three or four rows to each body segment, and five elements to each row |