| Zholsuchus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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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.
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
References
References
- Kuzmin IT (2022). "Crocodyliform remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia – evidence for one of the oldest Crocodylia?". Cretaceous Research. 138 105266. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105266. S2CID 249355618.
- 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.