Ieldraan melkshamensis Foffa et al. 2018 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae

Full reference: D. Foffa, M. T. Young, S. L. Brusatte, M. R. Graham, and L. Steel. 2018. A new metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic) of England, with implications for the origin and diversification of Geosaurini. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Belongs to Ieldraan according to D. Foffa et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMUK PV OR 46797, a partial skull (an incomplete and severely diagenetically damaged skull (including fragments of maxilla, portions of the nasals, frontal, both prefrontals, postorbitals, left s). Its type locality is Melksham, which is in a Callovian open shallow subtidal claystone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Melksham

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