Osteology of a North American goniopholidid (Eutretauranosuchus delfsi) and palate evolution in Neosuchia
Author
Pritchard, Adam C.
Author
Turner, Alan H.
Author
Allen, Eric R.
Author
Norell, Mark A.
text
American Museum Novitates
2013
2013-10-23
2013
3783
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3783.2
journal article
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10.1206/3783.2
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Eutretauranosuchus delfsi
Mook, 1967
HOLOTYPE
:
CMNH 8028
, nearly complete skull and complete mandibles (
figs. 2
,
3
).
REFERRED SPECIMENS
:
BYU
17628, complete skull and articulated mandibles.
NEWLY REFERRED SPECIMEN: AMNH FARB 570, complete skull (
figs. 5–15
); partial right hemimandible (
fig. 16
); partial cervical series with associated osteoderms (
fig. 1
), three isolated osteoderms, distal portion of a left femur (
fig. 17
).
EMENDED DIAGNOSIS: (1) Elongate, platyrostral skull; (2) prominent depression on posterolateral surface of alveolar process of maxilla; (3) subtle emargination of maxillary tooth row, with only a single lateral undulation; (4) broadening of nasals anterior to prefrontals; (5) nasals do not contact external nares; (6) broad, flat interfenestral bar with raised medial rims along supratemporal fenestrae (from
Mook, 1967
, and
Smith et al., 2010
: shared with
Amphicotylus lucasii
[AMNH FARB 5782]); (7) anteroposteriorly elongate palatal opening due to partial contact of palatal processes of maxillae and noncontact of palatal processes of palatines, exposing entire nasopharyngeal canal in ventral view (shared with
Calsoyasuchus valliceps
[TMM 43631-1]); (8) nasopharyngeal septum formed from diverging vomeral processes anteriorly and midline pterygoid process posteriorly (present in
Amphicotylus lucasii
[AMNH FARB 5782]); and (9) vomeral septal complex forms X shape in cross section (shared with
Amphicotylus lucassii
[AMNH FARB 5782]).
LOCALITY: Bone Cabin Quarry, Morrison Formation (Brushy Basin Member),
Wyoming
,
United States of America
(fig. 4). Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) (
Foster, 2009
).