Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Full reference: S. Sachs, M. T. Young, P. Abel and H. Mallison. 2019. A new species of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Cricosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2): 343-356
Belongs to Cricosaurus according to S. Sachs et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, Cricosaurus araucanensis, Cricosaurus elegans, Cricosaurus gracilis, Cricosaurus lithographicus, Cricosaurus macrospondylus, Cricosaurus mexicanus, Cricosaurus puelchorum, Cricosaurus rauhuti, Cricosaurus saltillensis, Cricosaurus schroderi, Cricosaurus schroederi, Cricosaurus suevicus, Cricosaurus vignaudi, Neustosaurus
Type specimen: NKMB-P-Watt14/274, a skeleton (almost complete skeleton). Its type locality is Kalk- und Dolomitbruch der Andreas Schorr GmbH, which is in a Kimmeridgian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal carbonate in the Torleite Formation of Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Kalk- und Dolomitbruch der Andreas Schorr GmbH
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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