Neosteneosaurus
Neosteneosaurus | |
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Holotype and assigned specimen | |
Scientific classification | |
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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Binomial name | |
†Neosteneosaurus edwardsi (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1868)
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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]
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. PMC 7548081. PMID 33083104.
Categories:
- Thalattosuchians
- Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
- Callovian life
- Oxfordian life
- Middle Jurassic reptiles of Europe
- Jurassic England
- Fossils of England
- Jurassic France
- Fossils of France
- Fossil taxa described in 2020