Biology:Seldsienean

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Short description: Extinct genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian

Seldsienean
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Bathonian
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Holotype skull
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Genus: Seldsienean
Johnson et al., 2020
Species:
S. megistorhynchus
Binomial name
Seldsienean megistorhynchus
(Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
Synonyms
Alternative view of the holotype

Seldsienean (Old English for "seldom seen one") in an extinct genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic of England and France.[1] It is known from the Calcaire de Caen and the Cornbrash Formation.[1]

Its type species, S. megistorhynchus, was originally described as a species of Steneosaurus in 1866,[2] but was given its own genus in 2020.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution" (in en). PeerJ 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 33083104. 
  2. Eudes-Deslongchamps, J. A. "Sur la découverte d’une mâchoire inférieure entière de Steneosaurus megistorhynchus (GEOFF.) trouvée à Allemagne et comparaison de cette espèce avec le Teleosaurus larteti (DESL.)." Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Normandie 10 (1866): 80-85.

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