Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Alternative combination: Enaliosuchus macrospondylus
Full reference: E. Koken. 1883. Die Reptilien der norddeutschen unteren Kreide. Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 35:735-827
Belongs to Cricosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015
See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Hua et al. 2000, Young and Andrade 2009 and Young et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, Cricosaurus araucanensis, Cricosaurus bambergensis, Cricosaurus elegans, Cricosaurus gracilis, Cricosaurus lithographicus, Cricosaurus mexicanus, Cricosaurus puelchorum, Cricosaurus rauhuti, Cricosaurus saltillensis, Cricosaurus schroderi, Cricosaurus suevicus, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus
Type specimen: HMN R3636.1–6, a set of vertebrae (atlas, axis, and isolated vertebrae). Its type locality is Landkreis Hamelin-Pyrmont, which is in a Valanginian marine horizon in Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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