Seldsienean
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]
| Seldsienean Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Machimosauridae |
| Genus: | †Seldsienean Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †S. megistorhynchus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Seldsienean megistorhynchus (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866) | |
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Alternative view of the holotype
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
- 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.
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