Zholsuchus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Zholsuchus is a genus of crocodyliform that may have been a goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian, but is only known from scanty material (a right premaxilla, one of the bones of the tip of the snout). This specimen was found in the Turonian-age Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Dzharakhuduk, Uzbekistan.[1] Zholsuchus was described in 1989 by Lev Nessov and colleagues. The type species is Z. procevus.
| Zholsuchus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Goniopholididae |
| Genus: | †Zholsuchus Nessov et al., 1989 |
| Type species | |
| Z. procevus Nessov et al., 1989 | |
A 2000 review by Glenn Storrs and Mikhail Efimov designated Zholsuchus a dubious name,[2] while a 2022 study found that Zholsuchus is a valid taxon by the traits assigned to the specimens assigned to Zholsuchus, and showed affiliations with crown-group crocodylians.[1]
