Cricosaurus suevicus Fraas 1901 (marine crocodile)

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 schroederi, 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

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