title: Platysuchus
text: # Platysuchus
  
  Platysuchus ("flat crocodile") is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of southern Germany and Luxembourg.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  Platysuchus was originally described as a member of the genus Mystriosaurus, as M. multiscrobiculatus. However, Westphal (1961) found M. multiscrobiculatus generically distinct from Mystriosaurus and renamed it Platysuchus.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Platysuchus has been found in Toarcian age marine deposits in southern Germany and Luxembourg.
  
  