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Mystriosuchus westphali
Taxonomy
Mystriosuchus westphali was named by Hungerbühler and Hunt (2000). Its type specimen is GPIT 261/001, a skull (Complete skull lacking the mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Untere Mühle, Trossingen, which is in a Norian floodplain sandstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler and Hunt |
| 2002 | Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler p. 382 |
| 2010 | Mystriosuchus westphali Stocker p. supplement |
| 2013 | Mystriosuchus westphali Stocker and Butler |
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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.
†Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Hungerbühler 2002 | A species of Mystriosuchus that is characterized by the following autapomorphic characters: discrete snout crest at midlength of the premaxillae; semicylindrical alveolar ridges; posterior process of the squamosal absent; squamosal contacts the prooÈ tic anteriorly; lobate extension of the vertically descending squamosal process of the parietal; posttemporal fenestra further reduced in height to a slit; supraoccipital borders the posttemporal fenestra; orbitosphenoid present. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||