Seldsienean Temporal range:
Middle Jurassic,
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Holotype skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | † Thalattosuchia |
Family: | † Machimosauridae |
Genus: | †
Seldsienean Johnson et al., 2020 |
Species: | †S. megistorhynchus
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Binomial name | |
†Seldsienean megistorhynchus (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
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Seldsienean ( Old English for "seldom seen one") in an extinct genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic of England and France. [1] It is known from the Calcaire de Caen and the Cornbrash Formation. [1]
Its type species, S. megistorhynchus, was originally described as a species of Steneosaurus in 1866, [2] but was given its own genus in 2020. [1]