Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Alternative combination: Enaliosuchus macrospondylus
Full reference: E. Koken. 1883. Die Reptilien der norddeutschen unteren Kreide. Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 35:735-827
Belongs to Cricosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015
See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Hua et al. 2000, Young and Andrade 2009 and Young et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, Cricosaurus araucanensis, Cricosaurus bambergensis, Cricosaurus elegans, Cricosaurus gracilis, Cricosaurus lithographicus, Cricosaurus mexicanus, Cricosaurus puelchorum, Cricosaurus rauhuti, Cricosaurus saltillensis, Cricosaurus schroderi, Cricosaurus schroederi, Cricosaurus suevicus, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus
Type specimen: HMN R3636.1–6, a set of vertebrae (atlas, axis, and isolated vertebrae). Its type locality is Landkreis Hamelin-Pyrmont, which is in a Valanginian marine horizon in Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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