†Saurodesmus robertsoni Seeley 1891 (cynodont)
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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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