Cricosaurus elegans, Young & Brusatte & Ruta & Andrade, 2010

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 : 852-853

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00571.x
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:05E4FB9D-4087-4BB7-88F4-D650CDD6046C
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C3187AE-9501-FFBE-FC27-F94CFDACFCF6
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Cricosaurus elegans
status

Treatment

CRICOSAURUS ELEGANS (WAGNER, 1852) WAGNER, 1858

1852 Stenosaurus elegans [sic] sp. nov.; Wagner 1858 Cricosaurus elegans gen. et comb. nov.; Wagner 1888a Metriorhynchus elegans comb. nov.; Lydekker 2009 Cricosaurus elegans comb. nov.; Young &

Andrade

Holotype: BSPG AS I 504, complete cranium preserved in lithographic limestone.

Type locality: Daiting, Bayern, Germany (Mörnsheim Formation).

Etymology: ‘Slender ring lizard’.

Geological range: Lower Tithonian (hybonotum ammonite zone).

Geographical range: Bayern, Germany.

Referred specimen: BSPG 1977 XIX 38, skull preserved in lithographic limestone.

Abbreviations

BSPG	Bayerische Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Geologie

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Crocodylia
Family	Metriorhynchidae
Genus	Cricosaurus

Specimens

Downloads & Links

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History