Suchodus brachyrhynchus

Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., Ruta, Marcello & Andrade, Marco Brandalise De, 2010, The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 158 (4), pp. 801-859 : 854-855

SUCHODUS BRACHYRHYNCHUS

(EUDES- DESLONGCHAMPS, 1868) COMB. NOV.

1864 ‘Téléosaure du Mesnil de Bavent’; Eudes- Deslongchamps

1868a Teleosaurus brachyrhynchus sp. nov.; Eudes- Deslongchamps

1869 Metriorhynchus brachyrhynchus comb. nov.; Eudes-Deslongchamps

1913 Metriorhynchus cultridens sp. nov.; Andrews

Holotype: Lost during the Second World War (almost complete skull).

Type locality: Calvados, Normandy, France (Oxford Clay Formation).

Neotype: NHM R.3700, skull lacking the tip of the premaxilla.

Neotype locality: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (middle Oxford Clay Formation).

Etymology: ‘Crocodile-toothed with a short snout’. Named because it was the first ‘brevirostrine’ form discovered, from brachus, the Ancient Greek for ‘short’.

Geological range: Lower Callovian–lower Oxfordian (koenigi–mariae ammonite zones).

Geographical range: Cambridgeshire, England, and Normandy and Poitou, France

Referred specimens: CAMSM J64267 , mandibular rami from a large individual ; GLAHM V978 , skull with mandible ; GLAHM V993 , skull, four cervical vertebrae, 13 dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, three caudal vertebrae, dorsal ribs, pubes, right ilium, ischia, and left femur ; GLAHM V995 , skull, mandible, three cervical vertebrae, 16 dorsal vertebrae, cervical ribs, pubes, ilia, left ischium, femora, and isolated manus bones ; GLAHM V1145 , left coracoid, proximal half of the right coracoid, right humerus, right ilium, left femur, and seven tooth crowns ; LEICT G418.1956.13, skull fragment, ischia, femora, and numerous ribs and chevrons; NHM R.3541, incomplete skull; NHM R.3699, incomplete skull; NHM R.3804, complete skull (three-dimensionally intact), mandible, atlas-axis, four cervical vertebrae, 16 dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, 37 caudal vertebrae, cervical and dorsal ribs, ilium, ischia, pubes, femora, and isolated pes bones (holotype of M. cultridens ); NHM R.3939, incomplete skull, mandible, and eight distorted vertebrae; PETMG R176 , skull with mandible .