Teleidosaurus
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Teleidosaurus is an extinct genus of carnivorous metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from Middle Jurassic (late Bajocian to early Bathonian stage) deposits of Normandy, France.[1][2] The name Teleidosaurus means "Complete lizard", and is derived from the Greek Script error: No such module "Lang".- ("complete") and Script error: No such module "Lang". -sauros ("lizard").
Discovery
The type species was named Teleosaurus Calvadosii [Sic] by Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps in 1866;[3] however, it was his son, Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps who erected the generic name Teleidosaurus later in 1869[4] for Teleosaurus calvadosii. Teleidosaurus joberti from the Great Oolite Formation is a junior synonym of T. calvadosii. T. calvadosii is known from the plastotype NHM R.2681, a complete skull and mandible and from NHM 32612, the plastotype of T. joberti, fragmentary right mandible. The holotype lost during the Second World War.[5][6] However, some plastoholotypes of T. calvadosii were saved in the Natural History Museum, London, (NHMUK PV R 2681), the National Museum of Natural History, France, and the Museum of Nancy.[6]
Classification
The only species within Teleidosaurus is the type species T. calvadosii. Both T. bathonicus and T. gaudryi where referred to Eoneustes.[5] All species are from Calvados, Normandy of France. Phylogenetic analyses do not support the monophyly of Teleidosaurus.[1][7] Once considered a metriorhynchid, Teleidosaurus was later recovered as non-metriorhynchid metriorhynchoid.[6]
References
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- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Wilkinson LE, Young MT, Benton MJ. 2008. A new metriorhynchid crocodilian (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Wiltshire, UK. Palaeontology 51 (6): 1307-1333.
- ↑ Eudes-Deslongchamps, J.A. 1866. Description d'une espèce inédite de Téléosaure des environs de Caen, le Teleosaurus calvadosii. Bulletin Soc. Linn. Normandie 2 (1): 112-118.
- ↑ Eudes-Deslongchamps, E. 1869. Notice sur les animaux fossiles de la famille des Téléosauriens recueillis en Normandie. Mémoires Acad. Imp. Sci. et Arts et Belles-Lettres: 31-80.
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- ↑ Mueller-Töwe IJ. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of the Thalattosuchia. Zitteliana A45: 211–213.