Haematosaurus Sauvage 1874 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Teleosauridae

Full reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1874. Mémoire sur les dinosauriens et les crocodiliens des terrains jurassiques de Boulogne-sur-Mer [Memoir on the dinosaurs and crocodilians of the Jurassic deposits of Boulogne-sur-mer]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, série 2 10(2):1-57

Parent taxon: Teleosauridae according to R. L. Carroll 1988

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aeolodontinae, Aeolodontini, Crocodilaemus, Indosinosuchus, Megalosaurus mersensis, Steneosaurus, Teleosaurinae

Subtaxa: Haematosaurus lanceolatus

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Type: Haematosaurus lanceolatus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Châtillon (Kimm) (Jurassic of France)

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