†subfamily Metriorhynchinae Buchy 2008 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae

Full reference: M.-C. Buchy. 2008. Reevaluation of the holotype of Plesiosaurus (Polyptychodon) mexicanus, Wieland, 1910 from the Upper Jurassic of Mexico: a thalattosuchian, not a sauropterygian. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 25(3):517-522

Parent taxon: Metriorhynchidae according to M. T. Young 2013

See also Barrientos-Lara et al. 2018, Buchy 2008, Cau and Fanti 2011, Parrilla-Bel et al. 2013 and Young et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Aggiosaurus, Capellineosuchus, Geosaurinae, Metriorhynchus

Subtaxa: Gracilineustes Rhacheosaurini Thalattosuchus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), France (2), Germany (2)

• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Cuba (1), France (4), Germany (13), Mexico (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4)

Total: 36 collections including 45 occurrences

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