Platysuchus
Sign in to savePlatysuchus ("flat crocodile") is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of southern Germany and Luxembourg.
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- Parent taxon
- Teleosauridae
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- Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus 1.JPG
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- taxon name
- Platysuchus
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- genus
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- Platysuchus
- start time
- 183000000-
- end time
- 176000000-
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Platysuchus ("flat crocodile") is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of southern Germany and Luxembourg.
==Taxonomy== thumb|left|Close ups of various parts of the holotype Platysuchus was originally described as a member of the genus Mystriosaurus, as M. multiscrobiculatus. However, Westphal (1961) found M. multiscrobiculatus generically distinct from Mystriosaurus and renamed it Platysuchus.
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