Zholsuchus is a genus of crocodyliform that may have been a goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian, but is only known from scanty material (a right premaxilla, one of the bones of the tip of the snout). This specimen was found in the Coniacian-age Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Dzharakhuduk, Uzbekistan. Zholsuchus was described in 1989 by Lev Nesov and colleagues. The type species is Z. procevus.
| Zholsuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Zholsuchus Nesov et al., 1989
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A 2000 review by Glenn Storrs and Mikhail Efimov designated Zholsuchus a dubious name,[1] while a 2022 study found that Zholsuchus is a valid taxa by the traits assigned to the specimens assigned to Zholsuchus, and showed affiliations with crown-group crocodylians.[2]
References edit
- ^ 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 978-0-521-55476-3.
- ^ Kuzmin IT (2022). "Crocodyliform remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia – evidence for one of the oldest Crocodylia?". Cretaceous Research. 138: Article 105266. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105266. S2CID 249355618.
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