Thalattosuchus, Young & Brignon & Sachs & Hornung & Foffa & Kitson & Johnson & Steel, 2021

Young, Mark T., Brignon, Arnaud, Sachs, Sven, Hornung, Jahn J., Foffa, Davide, Kitson, James J. N., Johnson, Michela M. & Steel, Lorna, 2021, Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (2), pp. 510-553 : 538

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa092
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7017055
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scientific name	Thalattosuchus
status	gen. nov.

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THALATTOSUCHUS GEN. NOV.

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Type species

Crocodilus superciliosus Blainville in Eudes- Deslongchamps, 1852 (following Recommendation 67B of the ICZN Code) (nomen protectum). Now referred to as Thalattosuchus superciliosus (Blainville in Eudes- Deslongchamps, 1852) comb. nov. Type by designation.

Thalattosuchus superciliosus is a junior subjective synonym of Steneosaurus rostrominor Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire, 1825 (nomen oblitum).

Etymology

‘Sea crocodile’, given that the species superciliosus is perhaps the best-known thalattosuchian, it is fitting that the genus be established for this species.

Diagnosis

Same as the only species (see below).