Lemmysuchus, Johnson & Young & Steel & Foffa & Smith & Hua & Havlik & Howlett & Dyke, 2018

Johnson, Michela M., Young, Mark T., Steel, Lorna, Foffa, Davide, Smith, Adam S., Hua, Stéphane, Havlik, Philipe, Howlett, Eliza A. & Dyke, Gareth, 2018, Re-description of ‘ Steneosaurus’ obtusidens Andrews, 1909, an unusual macrophagous teleosaurid crocodylomorph from the Middle Jurassic of England, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182, pp. 385-418 : 389

LEMMYSUCHUS GEN. NOV.

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Type species

Steneosaurus obtusidens Andrews, 1909 [following recommendation 67B of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) code]. Now referred to as Lemmysuchus obtusidens ( Andrews, 1909) comb. nov.

Diagnosis

Same as the only known species (monotypic genus).

Etymology

‘Lemmy’s crocodile’. Lemmy referring to Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as ‘Lemmy’, the deceased founder, bassist and lead singer of Motörhead, and suchus is the Latinized form of the Greek soukhos (σοῦχος), meaning crocodile.

LEMMYSUCHUS OBTUSIDENS ( ANDREWS, 1909)