Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Alternative combinations: Metriorhynchus gracile, Steneosaurus gracilis
Full reference: J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523
Belongs to Cricosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015
See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Phillips 1871, Young and Andrade 2009 and Young et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, Cricosaurus araucanensis, Cricosaurus bambergensis, Cricosaurus elegans, Cricosaurus lithographicus, Cricosaurus macrospondylus, Cricosaurus mexicanus, Cricosaurus puelchorum, Cricosaurus rauhuti, Cricosaurus saltillensis, Cricosaurus schroderi, Cricosaurus schroederi, Cricosaurus suevicus, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus
Type specimen: OXFUM J.1431, a partial skull (skull encased in matrix, lacking snout)
Distribution: found only at Daiting (BSPG collection) (Jurassic of Germany)
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