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Mycterosuchus nasutus
Taxonomy
Steneosaurus nasutus was named by Andrews (1909). Its type specimen is BMNH R2617, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Peterborough area, Leeds Collection, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Mycterosuchus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Steneosaurus leedsi by Adams-Tresman (1987) and Pierce et al. (2009); it was recombined as Mycterosuchus nasutus by Andrews (1913) and Johnson et al. (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Steneosaurus leedsi by Adams-Tresman (1987) and Pierce et al. (2009); it was recombined as Mycterosuchus nasutus by Andrews (1913) and Johnson et al. (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1909 | Steneosaurus nasutus Andrews p. 302 figs. Plate 9, fig. 1 |
| 1913 | Mycterosuchus nasutus Andrews p. 136 figs. Plate 8; Text-figs 51-54 |
| 2020 | Mycterosuchus nasutus Johnson et al. p. 23 |
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†Mycterosuchus nasutus Andrews 1909
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Middle Callovian or 164.70000 to 161.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Callovian | United Kingdom (England) | Steneosaurus nasutus (type locality: 109800) |