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Teleosauroidea is an
extinct superfamily of
thalattosuchian crocodyliforms living from the
Early Jur****ic to the
Early Cretaceous. Johnson,
Michela M.;...
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contains two
major subgroupings, the
Teleosauroidea and Metriorhynchoidea.
Teleosauroids are not
greatly specialised for
oceanic life, with back
osteoderms similar...
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extinct family of
teleosauroid thalattosuchian crocodyliforms. The
family was
first identified in 2016, when
fossils of
teleosauroid thalattosuchians,...
- Teleosauroidea. However, as
teleosauroid relationships and
diversity was
better studied in the 21st century, the
division of
teleosauroids into two
distinct evolutionary...
- Portugal,
Switzerland and Tunisia.
Machimosaurus rex is the
largest named teleosauroid and thalattosuchian, with an
estimated length of up to 7.15 m (23.5 ft)...
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evidence that such
teleosauroids were
present outside of
Western Europe during the Oxfordian.
Scheyer et al. (2024)
describe teleosauroid tooth crowns ****ociated...
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Lemmysuchus L.
obtusidens A
teleosauroid belonging to the
Machimosauridae Charitomenosuchus C.
leedsi A
machimosaurid teleosauroid Steneosaurus S. edwardsi...
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Middle Jur****ic
Callovian of
England and France. Like many
other teleosauroids from Europe, it has had a
convoluted taxonomic history. "Steneosaurus"...
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hypothesis is
still a
matter of debate.
European teleosauroids did
indeed suffer total extinction, but
teleosauroids as a
whole survived into the
Early Cretaceous...
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fossils for over two centuries, and
almost all
known historical species of
teleosauroid have been
included within it at one point. The
genus has
remained a wastebasket...
