†superfamily Teleosauroidea Saint-Hilaire 1831 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata

Parent taxon: Neothalattosuchia according to M. T. Young et al. 2024

See also Foffa et al. 2019, Sachs et al. 2019, Scheyer et al. 2024 and Young et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Metriorhynchoidea

Subtaxa: Andrianavoay Charitomenosuchus Clovesuurdameredeor Deslongchampsina Machimosauridae Neosteneosaurus Plagiophthalmosuchus Seldsienean Teleosauridae

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Type: Teleosaurus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Colombia (1 collection), Romania (1), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Tunisia (6), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Wyoming)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (2), Morocco (5), Thailand (2), Tunisia (1)

• Jurassic of China (2), Ethiopia (1), France (50), Germany (13), Luxembourg (3), Madagascar (2), Mexico (2), Morocco (14), Poland (3), Portugal (9), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (4), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (32)

Total: 163 collections including 209 occurrences

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