Stromerosuchus

Stromerosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Subclass:	Diapsida
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
(unranked):	Crurotarsi
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
(unranked):	Crocodyliformes
Genus:	†Stromerosuchus Kuhn, 1936
Binomial name
†Stromerosuchus aegyptiacus Kuhn, 1936

Stromerosuchus (meaning "Ernst Stromer's crocodile") is a dubious genus of Late Cretaceous crocodyliform.[1] Fragmentary remains have been found from the Cenomanian-age Bahariya Formation of Egypt.

Discovery and naming

The holotype was collected by Ernst Stromer and Richard Markgraf in 1911 and along with many others found from Bahariya, were in the possession of the Egyptian Geological Survey. In 1922, the fossils were sent back to Stromer (who was in Germany at the time), but they were badly crushed in shipment from Egypt.[2]

Stromerosuchus aegyptiacus was named in 1936 by Oskar Kuhn.[3]

Classification

Because the known remains are so poor, the genus is now regarded as a nomen dubium. Some material has been referred to the genera Aegyptosuchus and Stomatosuchus, both named by Stromer from the Bahariya material.[4]

It was assigned first to Crocodylia by Kuhn (1964)[5] and then to Stromerosuchidae by Kuhn (1966)[6] before being moved into Aegyptosuchidae by Molnar (1989)[1] and later Crocodyliformes.[4]

References

1. R. E. Molnar. (1989). Terrestrial tetrapods on Cretaceous Antarctica. In J. A. Crane (ed.), Origins and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota, Geological Society Special Publication 47:131-140
2. Nothdurft, W.; Smith, J.; Lamanna, M.; Lacovara, K.; Poole, J.; Smith, J. (2002). The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt. New York: Random House. pp. 133. ISBN 9780375507953.
3. Kuhn, O. (1936). "Weitere Parasuchier und Labyrinthodonten aus dem Blasensandstein des mittleren Keuper von Ebrach". Palaeontographica. 83: 61–98.
4. "Crocodilia". Paleofile. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
5. O. Kuhn. (1964). Unsolved problems of the phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 118/119:293-325
6. O. W. M. Kuhn. (1966). The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny. Krailling bei München: Oeben.