Reptilia - Loricata - Machimosauridae
Full reference: M. T. Young, S. Hua, L. Steel, D. Foffa, S. L. Brusatte, S. Thuring, O. Mateus, J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca, P. Havlik, Y. Lepage, and M. B. Andrade. 2014. Revision of the Late Jurassic teleosaurid genus Machimosaurus (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia). Royal Society Open Science 1:140222
Belongs to Machimosaurus according to F. Fanti et al. 2016
See also Martin et al. 2015 and Young et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Machimosaurus hugii, Machimosaurus mosae, Machimosaurus nowackianus, Machimosaurus rex
Type specimen: SMNS 91415, a skull (complete skull and mandible, with partial postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Am Hornle Quarry, which is in a Kimmeridgian marine horizon in Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Am Hornle Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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