Saurodesmus robertsoni Seeley 1891 (cynodont)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Tritylodontidae

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1891. On Saurodesmus robertsoni (Seeley), a crocodilian reptile from the Rhaetic of Linesfield, in Elgin. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 47:166-170

Belongs to Saurodesmus according to T. Szczygielski et al. 2024

See also Joyce 2017 and Seeley 1891

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMUK PV OR 28877, almost complete right femur, a limb element. Its type locality is Linksfield, which is in a Jurassic marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the United Kingdom.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Linksfield

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