Cricosaurus vignaudi, (FREY ET AL., 2002) YOUNG & ANDRADE, 2009

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

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CRICOSAURUS VIGNAUDI (FREY ET AL., 2002) YOUNG & ANDRADE, 2009

1993 Geosaurus sp. ; Stinnesbeck et al.

2002 Geosaurus vignaudi sp. nov.; Frey et al.

2009 Cricosaurus vignaudi comb. nov.; Young & Andrade

Holotype: UANL FCT-R1 , incomplete skull and mandible, altas axis, and two cervical vertebrae.

Type locality: Mazatepec, State of Puebla, Mexico (La Pimienta Formation).

Etymology: ‘Vignaud’s ring lizard’. Named in honour of Patrick Vignaud, who has worked to greatly elucidate thalattosuchian palaeobiology and taxonomy.

Geological range: Middle Tithonian.

Geographical range: State of Puebla, Mexico.