†family Machimosauridae Jouve et al. 2016 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Machimosauridae

Full reference: S. Jouve, B. Mennecart, J. Douteau and N.-E. Jalil. 2016. The oldest durophagous teleosauroid (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the lower Bathonian of central High Atlas, Morocco. Palaeontology

Parent taxon: Teleosauroidea according to M. T. Young et al. 2024

See also Scheyer et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Andrianavoay, Charitomenosuchus, Clovesuurdameredeor, Deslongchampsina, Neosteneosaurus, Plagiophthalmosuchus, Seldsienean, Teleosauridae

Subtaxa: Machimosaurinae

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Type: Machimosaurus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Spain (1 collection), Tunisia (5)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Tunisia (1)

• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (15), Germany (6), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Portugal (9), Spain (2), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 48 collections including 54 occurrences

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