Steneosaurus dasycephalus Seeley 1869 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Teleosauridae

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Steneosaurus according to H. G. Seeley 1869

Sister taxa: Machimosaurus bathonicus, Machimosaurus rigauxi, Steneosaurus aalensis, Steneosaurus atelestatus, Steneosaurus blumembachi, Steneosaurus brevidens, Steneosaurus brevirostris, Steneosaurus durobrivensis, Steneosaurus heberti, Steneosaurus lyceense, Steneosaurus megarhinus, Steneosaurus oplites, Steneosaurus pictaviensis, Steneosaurus priscus, Steneosaurus roissyi, Steneosaurus rostromajor, Steneosaurus rostrominor, Steneosaurus rudis, Steneosaurus temporalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Peterborough area, Porter Collection, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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