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 Nesov and colleagues. The type species is Z. procevus.

Zholsuchus
Temporal range: Turonian[1]
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Zholsuchus

Nesov et al., 1989
Species
  • Z. procevus Nesov et al., 1989 (type)

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 taxa by the traits assigned to the specimens assigned to Zholsuchus, and showed affiliations with crown-group crocodylians.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Kuzmin IT (2022). "Crocodyliform remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia – evidence for one of the oldest Crocodylia?". Cretaceous Research. 138: Article 105266. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105266. S2CID 249355618.
  2. ^ Storrs, Glenn W.; Efimov, Mikhail B. (2000). "Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N. (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 402–419. ISBN 978-0-521-55476-3.