Zhyrasuchus

Extinct genus of reptiles

Zhyrasuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Crocodylomorpha
(unranked):
?Eusuchia
Family:
?Crocodylidae
Genus:
Zhyrasuchus

Nesov et al., 1989
Species
  • Z. angustifrons Nesov et al., 1989 (type)

Zhyrasuchus is an extinct monospecific genus of crocodylomorph that may have been a crocodylid eusuchian, but is only known from scanty material including a frontal (one of the bones of the roof of the skull). Its fossils were found in the Coniacian-age Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Dzharakhuduk, Uzbekistan. Zhyrasuchus was described in 1989 by Lev Nesov and colleagues. The type species is Z. angustifrons. A 2000 review by Glenn Storrs and Mikhail Efimov could not determine how Zhyrasuchus and the contemporaneous Tadzhikosuchus were related, or even if they were synonyms, due to the poor fossils available.[1]

References

  1. ^ Storrs, Glenn W.; Efimov, Mikhail B. (2000). "Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N. (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 402–419. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
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Pseudosuchia
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Neosuchia
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Tethysuchia
Pholidosauridae
Dyrosauridae
Atoposauridae
Stomatosuchidae
Paluxysuchidae
Goniopholididae
Bernissartiidae
Paralligatoridae
Eusuchia
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Oceanosuchus boecensis

Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Isisfordia duncani Goniopholis simus

Bernissartia fagesii
Hylaeochampsidae
Allodaposuchidae
Aegyptosuchidae
"Thoracosaurs"
Planocraniidae
Crocodilia
    • see Crocodilia for extant taxa, and Extinct Crocodilia for extinct ones
Allodaposuchus precedens
Taxon identifiers
Zhyrasuchus
Zhyrasuchus angustifrons


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