Steneosaurus roissyi Eudes-Deslongchamps 1868 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Teleosauridae

Full reference: E. Eudes-Deslongchamps. 1868. Note sur le Squelette et la Restauration du Teleosaurus cadomensis [Note on the skeleton and restoration of Teleosaurus cadomensis]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, série 2 2:381-473

Belongs to Steneosaurus according to C. W. Andrews 1913

Sister taxa: Machimosaurus bathonicus, Machimosaurus rigauxi, Steneosaurus aalensis, Steneosaurus atelestatus, Steneosaurus blumembachi, Steneosaurus brevidens, Steneosaurus brevirostris, Steneosaurus dasycephalus, Steneosaurus durobrivensis, Steneosaurus heberti, Steneosaurus lyceense, Steneosaurus megarhinus, Steneosaurus oplites, Steneosaurus pictaviensis, Steneosaurus priscus, Steneosaurus rostromajor, Steneosaurus rostrominor, Steneosaurus rudis, Steneosaurus temporalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Falaises des Vaches Noires, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian marine horizon in the Marnes de Dives Formation of France

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Falaises des Vaches Noires

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