Amphicotylus

Amphicotylus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Skeletal reconstruction and size comparison of Amphicotylus milesi (GMNH-PV0000229)
Skull (OMNH 2392) of Amphicotylus stovalli from Oklahoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Family: †Goniopholididae
Genus: †Amphicotylus
Cope, 1878
Type species
†Amphicotylus lucasii
Cope, 1878
Species
  • †A. felix (Marsh, 1877)
  • †A. gilmorei? (Holland, 1905)
  • †A. lucasii Cope, 1878
  • †A. stovalli (Mook, 1964)
  • †A. milesi Yoshida et al., 2021

Amphicotylus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian from the Tithonian of Colorado, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. It was described in 1878.

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