Seldsienean
Appearance
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Seldsienean Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
Family: | †Machimosauridae |
Genus: | †Seldsienean Johnson et al., 2020 |
Species: | †S. megistorhynchus
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†Seldsienean megistorhynchus (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
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Seldsienean (Old English for "seldom seen one") in an extinct genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic of England and France.[1] It is known from the Calcaire de Caen and the Cornbrash Formation.[1]
Its type species, S. megistorhynchus, was originally described as a species of Steneosaurus in 1866,[2] but was given its own genus in 2020.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7548081. PMID 33083104.
- ^ Eudes-Deslongchamps, J. A. "Sur la découverte d’une mâchoire inférieure entière de Steneosaurus megistorhynchus (GEOFF.) trouvée à Allemagne et comparaison de cette espèce avec le Teleosaurus larteti (DESL.)." Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Normandie 10 (1866): 80-85.