Neosteneosaurus
Neosteneosaurus is a genus of machimosaurid, known form the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay of the UK, and Marnes de Dives, France. The type species, N. edwardsi, was originally named as a species of Steneosaurus in 1868,[1] but was moved to its own genus in 2020. Steneosaurus durobrivensis and Steneosaurus hulkei are considered junior synonyms.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Machimosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Machimosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Neosteneosaurus Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †N. edwardsi |
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| †Neosteneosaurus edwardsi (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1868) | |
Skull of the junior synonym S. durobrivensis
References
- Eudes-Deslongchamps E. 1867-1869. Notes Paléontologiques. Caen and Paris: 320-392.
- Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808.
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