Plagiophthalmosuchus Gracilirostris
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''Plagiophthalmosuchus'' is a genus of teleosauroid, known form the Early Jurassic (Early Toarcian) Whitby Mudstone Formation of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK, and Dudelange, Luxembourg. The type species, ''P. gracilirostris'', was originally named as a species of ''
Teleosaurus ''Teleosaurus'' (from el, τέλειος , 'perfect' and el, σαῦρος , 'lizard') is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform found in the Middle Jurassic Calcaire de Caen Formation of France. It was approximately in length and w ...
'' in 1836, but then it was moved to '' Steneosaurus'' in 1961,F. Westphal. (1961). Zu Systematik der deutschen und englischen Lias-Krokodilier he systematics of the German and English Lias crocodiles ''Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen'' 113(2):207-218 but it was again moved to its own genus in 2020.


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{{Thalattosuchia Thalattosuchians Fossil taxa described in 2020 Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera