Seldsienean

Seldsienean
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Bathonian
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Holotype skull
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Binomial name
†Seldsienean megistorhynchus
(Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
Synonyms
Alternative view of the holotype

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]

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