Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Full reference: M. T. Young, M. B. d. Andrade, S. L. Brusatte, M. Sakamoto, and J. Liston. 2013. The oldest known metriorhynchid super-predator: a new genus and species from the Middle Jurassic of England, with implications for serration and mandibular evolution in predacious clades. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Belongs to Tyrannoneustes according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015
See also Young et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GLAHM V972, a partial skeleton (right ramus ofmandible (angular, dentary, splenial, surangular, eight teeth), fragment of jugal bar (R), quadratojugal (R, fragment), vertebrae: cervical (4), d). Its type locality is Fletton brick pit, Peterborough, which is in a Callovian marine horizon in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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