Steneosaurus temporalis Owen 1884 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Teleosauridae

Full reference: R. Owen. 1884. A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Part III. 1-199

Belongs to Steneosaurus according to R. Owen 1884

Sister taxa: Machimosaurus bathonicus, Machimosaurus rigauxi, Steneosaurus aalensis, Steneosaurus atelestatus, Steneosaurus blumembachi, Steneosaurus brevidens, Steneosaurus brevirostris, Steneosaurus dasycephalus, Steneosaurus durobrivensis, Steneosaurus heberti, Steneosaurus lyceense, Steneosaurus megarhinus, Steneosaurus oplites, Steneosaurus pictaviensis, Steneosaurus priscus, Steneosaurus roissyi, Steneosaurus rostromajor, Steneosaurus rostrominor, Steneosaurus rudis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bath area, which is in a Bathonian shallow subtidal limestone in the United Kingdom

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bath area

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