Zholsuchus

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] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Family:	†Goniopholididae
Genus:	†Zholsuchus Nesov et al., 1989
Type species
Z. procevus Nesov 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]