Extinct genus of reptiles from early Middle Triassic of South Africa
Mesosuchus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 246 Ma
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Life restoration of Mesosuchus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauromorpha
Order:
†Rhynchosauria
Genus:
†Mesosuchus Watson, 1912
Species
†M. browni Watson, 1912 (type)
Mesosuchus ("middle crocodile") is an extinct genus of basal rhynchosaur from early Middle Triassic (early Anisian stage) [1] deposits of Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is known from the holotype SAM 5882, a partial skeleton, and from the paratypes SAM 6046, SAM 6536, SAM 7416 and SAM 7701 from the Aliwal North Euparkeria site. Mesosuchus is quite small, spanning around 30 cm in length. Mesosuchus was discovered and named by D. M. S. Watson in 1912.
^Butler, Richard (2015). "A New Species of Basal Rhynchosaur (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Early Middle Triassic of South Africa, and the Early Evolution of Rhynchosauria". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (3): 571–88. doi:10.1111/zoj.12246. hdl:11449/167867.
site. Mesosuchus is quite small, spanning around 30 cm in length. Mesosuchus was discovered and named by D. M. S. Watson in 1912. Bones of Mesosuchus were...
with stocky bodies and a powerful beak. Early primitive forms, like Mesosuchus and Howesia, were generally small, typically lizard-like in build, and...
Archosauromorpha as a node-based clade containing Gallus, Alligator, Mesosuchus, Trilophosaurus, Prolacerta, and Protorosaurus. The new name Pan-Archosauria...
surface of the maxilla, while Mesosuchus lacks it entirely and it is unknown in Howesia. As in Howesia but not Mesosuchus and most rhynchosaurids (where...
Stocker and Butler's study in 2013 misspelled its original generic name as Mesosuchus. Jaekel originally described the taxon on the basis of a single specimen...
2003.00102.x. Dilkes, David M. (1998). "The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles"....
JSTOR 4523832. Dilkes, David M. (1998). "The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles"....
OCLC 550640808. Dilkes, D.M. (1998). "The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles"....
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