Cricosaurus schroderi Kuhn 1936 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae

Alternative combination: Enaliosuchus schroderi

Belongs to Cricosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Young and Andrade 2009, Young et al. 2010 and Young et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, Cricosaurus araucanensis, Cricosaurus bambergensis, Cricosaurus elegans, Cricosaurus gracilis, Cricosaurus lithographicus, Cricosaurus macrospondylus, Cricosaurus mexicanus, Cricosaurus puelchorum, Cricosaurus rauhuti, Cricosaurus saltillensis, Cricosaurus schroederi, Cricosaurus suevicus, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus

Type specimen: MMGLV unnumbered, a partial skeleton (skull with mandible, lacking snout, and atlas axis and cervical three)

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cricosaurus schroderi in the database

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