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 suevicus, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus
Type specimen: OXFUM J.1431, a partial skull (skull encased in matrix, lacking snout)
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Daiting (BSPG collection) (Jurassic of Germany)
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