Glaphyrorhynchus

Glaphyrorhynchus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Cast of the jaws, Natural History Museum, Bonn University
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Infraclass:
Archosauromorpha
(unranked):
Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder:
Thalattosuchia
Family:
Teleosauridae
Genus:
Glaphyrorhynchus

von Meyer, 1842
Species
  • G. aalensis von Meyer, 1842 (type)

Glaphyrorhynchus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southern Germany.

Taxonomy and provenance

Glaphyrorhynchus is known only from a jaw fragment found in the late Aalenian of Aalen, Germany.[1] The holotype is lost, so the validity of the taxon remains unclear.[2]

References

  1. ^ Von Meyer, H. (1842) Glaphyrorhynchus Aalensis im Untereisenoolith und Brachytaenius perennis im gelben Jurakalk Württembergs. In Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde (pp. 301-304). E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Stuttgart.
  2. ^ Abel, P., Sachs, S. & Young, M. T. (2018) Thalattosuchian remains from the late Aalenian Eisensandstein Formation of Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. Geobonn 2018, Abstracts: 223.


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