Plagiophthalmosuchus
| Plagiophthalmosuchus | |
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| Holotype skeleton, with close-ups of various areas | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Parvorder: | †Neothalattosuchia |
| Superfamily: | †Teleosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plagiophthalmosuchus Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †P. gracilirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| †Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris (Westphal, 1961) Johnson et al., 2020
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Plagiophthalmosuchus is an extinct genus of thalattosuchian crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic (Early Toarcian) Whitby Mudstone Formation of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK, and Dudelange, Luxembourg. It contains the single species Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris. In life, it was a small marine predator that would have fed on fish.