Mycterosuchus nasutus Andrews 1909 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Teleosauridae

Alternative combination: Steneosaurus nasutus

Full reference: C. W. Andrews. 1909. On some new steneosaurs from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3:299-308

Belongs to Mycterosuchus according to M. M. Johnson et al. 2020

See also Adams-Tresman 1987, Andrews 1913 and Pierce et al. 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH R2617, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Peterborough area, Leeds Collection, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Peterborough area, Leeds Collection

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