Parent taxon: Thalattosuchia according to S. Sachs et al. 2019
See also Foffa et al. 2019 and Young et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Eoneustes, Metriorhynchidae, Metriorhynchoidea, Mystriosaurus, Peipehsuchus, Pelagosaurus, Steneosaurus gerthi, Teleidosaurus, Teleosauridae, Turnersuchus
Subtaxa: Andrianavoay Bathysuchus Charitomenosuchus Clovesuurdameredeor Deslongchampsina Machimosaurini Neosteneosaurus Plagiophthalmosuchus Seldsienean
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Colombia (1 collection), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Tunisia (6)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Tunisia (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), Ethiopia (1), France (24), Germany (6), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (1), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Portugal (9), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (10)
Total: 72 collections including 84 occurrences