Chinese teleosauroid previously referred to as Peipehsuchus
Peipehsuchus is an extinctgenus of metriorhynchoidcrocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian). The type species, P. teleorhinus, is known from China and fragmentary remains were found in the Callovian of Kyrgyzstan.[1] The type specimen is known only by a fragmentary rostrum and teeth, and was originally believed to be a teleosaurid. A complete teleosaurid skull was referred to Peipehsuchus, however, the type specimen of Peipehsuchus has since been determined to be a metriorhynchoid and so the skull cannot belong to it.[2]
References
^Storrs, Glenn W. and Efimov, M. Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia, Chapter 20 of The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Michael J. Benton,Mikhail A. Shishkin,David M. Unwin, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 414.
^Aiglstorfer, M.; Havlik, P.; Herrera, Y. (2019). "The first metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) of Germany, with implications for the evolution of Metriorhynchoidea". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (2): 522–551. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz072.
Sources
Buffeteaut, E., 1982 "Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des crocodiliens mésosuchiens". Société Géologique de France, Mémoirs 142: 1-88.
Li, J., 1993, "A new specimen of Peipehsuchus teleorhinus from Ziliujing formation of Daxian, Sichuan": Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 31, n. 2, p. 85-94.
Steel, R., 1973, Crocodylia: Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie, part 16, 116pp
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