Meridiosaurus
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| Meridiosaurus Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Pholidosauridae |
| Genus: | †Meridiosaurus Mones, 1980 |
| Species: | †M. vallisparadisi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi Mones, 1980
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Meridiosaurus is an extinct genus of mesoeucrocodylian that is a member of the family Pholidosauridae.[1] Remains have been found in the Late Jurassic Tacuarembó Formation in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.[2] The genus was described in 1980 on the basis of a partial rostrum that included the premaxillae and most of the maxillae.[3][4] The assignment to Pholidosauridae is considered doubtful by some authors, but a 2011 redescription and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the pholidosaurid classification of Meridiosaurus.[5][6]
References
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- ^ Fortier, D., Perea, D. and Schultz, C. (2011), Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi, a pholidosaurid from the Late Jurassic of Uruguay. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 163: S257–S272. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00722.x
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- A. Mones. 1980. Nuevos elementos de la paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodilia y Dinosauria) [New elements of the paleoherpetofauna of Uruguay (Crocodilia and Dinosauria)]. Actas II Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1:265-277
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