Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Alternative combination: Geosaurus gracilis
Belongs to Rhacheosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015
See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Quenstedt 1882, Young and Andrade 2009, Young et al. 2010 and Young et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Lost holotype; but casts of the vertebral comlumn and hindlimbs exist (AMNH FR 4804, BMNH R3961), a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Daiting (BMNH collection), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Mörnsheim Formation of Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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