Reptilia - Loricata - Machimosauridae
‘Lemmy’s crocodile’. Lemmy referring to Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as ‘Lemmy’, the deceased founder, bassist and lead singer of Motorhead, and suchus is the Latinized form of the Greek soukhos (σοῦχος), meaning crocodile. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:83D7C69A-4009-478E- 8D6E-A05F39E190D1
Full reference: M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young, L. Steel, D. Foffa, A. S. Smith, S. Hua, P. Havlik, E. A. Howlett, and G. Dyke. 2018. Re-description of ‘Steneosaurus’ obtusidens Andrews, 1909, an unusual macrophagous teleosaurid crocodylomorph from the Middle Jurassic of England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(2):385-418
Parent taxon: Machimosaurini according to M. T. Young et al. 2024
See also Johnson et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Machimosaurus, Yvridiosuchus
Subtaxa: Lemmysuchus obtusidens
Type: Steneosaurus obtusidens
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (1 collection)
• Jurassic of France (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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