Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Alternative combination: Geosaurus suevicus
Belongs to Cricosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015
See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Young and Andrade 2009, Young et al. 2010 and Young et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, Cricosaurus araucanensis, Cricosaurus bambergensis, Cricosaurus elegans, Cricosaurus gracilis, Cricosaurus lithographicus, Cricosaurus macrospondylus, Cricosaurus mexicanus, Cricosaurus puelchorum, Cricosaurus rauhuti, Cricosaurus saltillensis, Cricosaurus schroderi, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus
Type specimen: SMNS 9808, a skeleton (complete skeleton preserved in limestone)
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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